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Jacobus van 't Hoff: First Nobel Chemist
Dutch chemist, born 1852
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born in Rotterdam on 30 August 1852.
He won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901.
He proposed that carbon atoms form a tetrahedron.
He helped found physical chemistry.
Career highlights
- 1874Tetrahedral carbon: proposed
- 1878Amsterdam: professor
- 1884Chemical dynamics: published
- 1896Berlin: moves
- 1901Nobel Prize: Chemistry
Did you know?He published his carbon theory at 22, before finishing his doctorate.
