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Cato Maximilian Guldberg
Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1891)
Born(1836-08-11)11 August 1836
Christiania (now Oslo), Norway
Died14 January 1902(1902-01-14) (aged 65)
Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway)
NationalityNorwegian
Alma materRoyal Frederick University
Known forlaw of mass action
AwardsOrder of St. Olav
Order of the Dannebrog
Order of Vasa
Order of the Polar Star
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Chemistry
InstitutionsRoyal Frederick University
Guldberg and Waage
Guldberg and Waage

Cato Maximilian Guldberg (11 August 1836 – 14 January 1902) was a Norwegian mathematician and chemist. Guldberg is best known as a pioneer in physical chemistry.[1][2]

Background

Guldberg was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the eldest son of Carl August Guldberg (1812-92) and Hanna Sophie Theresia Bull (1810-54). He was the brother of nurse and educator Cathinka Guldberg. He attended Aug. Holths private latinskole in Christiania. Guldberg studied mathematics and physics at the University of Christiania and took his diploma in 1859. That same year he received the Crown Prince's gold medal (Kronprinsens gullmedalje) for a dissertation in pure mathematics. He received a travel and education scholarship in 1861, studying applied mathematics and machine learning in Germany, Switzerland and France. [3] [4]

Career

Buldberg first taught at Hartvig Nissens skole in Christiania. Gulberg worked at the Royal Frederick University becoming a college fellow in 1867 and received a professorship in applied mathematics in 1869. Together with his brother-in-law, Peter Waage, he proposed the law of mass action. This law attracted little attention until, in 1877, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff arrived at a similar relationship and experimentally demonstrated its validity.[5][6]

In 1890, he published what is now known as the Guldberg rule, which states that the normal boiling point of a liquid is two-thirds of the critical temperature when measured on the absolute scale.[7]

From 1866 to 1868, 1869 to 1872 and 1874 to 1875 he was the chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society.[8]

References

  1. ^ Bjørn Pedersen. "Cato M Guldberg". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  2. ^ "Cato Guldberg, Norwegian chemist". Oxford University Press. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  3. ^ "Stud. real. Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1859)". University of Oslo. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  4. ^ Bent Birkeland. "Cato M Guldberg". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
  5. ^ Waage, P.; C. M. Guldberg (1864). "Studies Concerning Affinity". Forhandlinger: Videnskabs - Selskabet i Christinia. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters: 35.
  6. ^ Abrash, Henry I.; Gulberg, C. M. (1986). "Studies Concerning Affinity". Journal of Chemical Education. 63 (12): 1044–1047. Bibcode:1986JChEd..63.1044W. doi:10.1021/ed063p1044.- English translation of Waage and Guldberg's 1864 paper (above)
  7. ^ Bowden, S. T. (1954). "A Corrected Guldberg Rule". Nature. 174 (4430): 613. Bibcode:1954Natur.174..613B. doi:10.1038/174613b0.
  8. ^ "PFs formenn 1852 - 2004" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Polytechnic Society. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2009. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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Preceded by Chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society
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Preceded by Chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society
1874–1875 		Succeeded by
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