Peter Waage

Peter Waage (29 June 1833 – 13 January 1900) was a Norwegian chemist. Along with his brother-in-law Cato Maximilian Guldberg, he co-discovered and developed the law of mass action between 1864 and 1879.^[1][2]

He grew up on the island of Hidra in Vest-Agder as the son of a ship's captain. He attended the Bergen Cathedral School and studied chemistry at the University of Christiania (now University of Oslo) under Adolph Strecker. In 1861, Waage was made an associate professor and in 1866 he was appointed professor of chemistry at the university. He remained a professor at the University over 30 years. He was also chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society from 1868 to 1869, and the first chairman of the Norwegian branch of the YMCA when it was established in 1880.^[3]

Publications

• Waage, P.; C. M. Guldberg (1864). "Studies Concerning Affinity". Forhandlinger: Videnskabs - Selskabet i Christinia. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters: 35. 
• Abrash, Henry I.; Gulberg, C. M. (1986). "Studies Concerning Affinity". Journal of Chemical Education. 63: 1044–1047. Bibcode:1986JChEd..63.1044W. doi:10.1021/ed063p1044. - English translation of Waage and Guldberg's 1864 paper (above)

References

1. ↑ Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 2nd Revised edition
2. ↑ Ove Kjølberg. "Peter Waage". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved January 1, 2017. 
3. ↑ Bjørn Pedersen. "Peter Waage – norsk kjemiker". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved January 1, 2017.