Bronsted johannes nicolaus biography books

In , he became an assistant at the Chemical Institute and obtained his doctoral degree in The couple had four children. In , he recognized that acid—base reactions involved the transfer of a proton, from the acid proton donor to the base proton acceptor. Lewis proposed an electronic theory of acid—base reactions, but both theories remain commonly used.

He also developed some work about the effect of molecular size on the thermodynamical properties of hydrocarbons, polymers and colloids. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted was a Danish physical chemist who is best known for developing the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory; he developed the theory at.

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