The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901 was awarded to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions."

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