Peter Libra

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Cato Maximilian Guldberg (left) and Peter Waage in 1891

Peter Waage (born June 29, 1833 in Flekkefjord ( Norway ), † January 13, 1900 in Kristiania, today Oslo ) was a Norwegian chemist .

Peter Waage worked as a professor of chemistry in Christiania from 1862. Together with his brother-in-law Cato Maximilian Guldberg , he derived the law of mass action (“law of chemical mass action”) from thermodynamic studies of chemical reactions from 1864 to 1867 and introduced the concept of equilibrium constants into it . He also constructed an ebulliometer to determine the alcohol content in beer .

Works

  • Omrids af Krystallorafien. Med et tillæg, indeholdende de vigtigste Stoffers Krystalformer (with Henrik Mohn , 1859)
  • Oxygen-containing acid radical theory (1859)
  • Qualitative chemical analysis course (1866)
  • with Guldberg: Investigations on the chemical affinities (1864, 1867, 1879). Translated and edited by Richard Abegg. Ostwalds Klassiker 104, Leipzig 1899, archive
    • Therein: Studies on Affinity I (Norwegian), Forhandlinger i Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania 1864, ´Études sur les affinités chimique, Christiania (Oslo) 1867, About chemical affinity, Erdmanns Journal für Praktische Chemie, Volume 127, 1879, p . 69–114 (published simultaneously in Norwegian in Forh. Vid. Selsk 1879)

literature

  • JR Partington : A history of chemistry. Vol. 4. London 1965, p. 588
personal data
SURNAME Libra, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Flekkefjord
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1900
Place of death Kristiania, today Oslo