van't Hoff (vänt hôf , h f), Jacobus Hendricus 1852-1911. Dutch chemist. He won a 1901 Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in stereochemistry and thermodynamics. |
van't Hoff (Dutch) [vɑnt ˈhɔf]
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(Biographies / van't Hoff, Jacobus Hendricus (1852-1911) M, Dutch, SCIENCE: chemist) Jacobus Hendricus (jaːˈkoːbys hɛnˈdriːkœs). 1852-1911, Dutch physical chemist: founded stereochemistry with his theory of the asymmetric carbon atom; the first to apply thermodynamics to chemical reactions: Nobel prize for chemistry 1901
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