- Cato Maximilian Guldberg
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birth_date =August 11 1836
birth_place =Christiania (todayOslo )
death_date =January 14 1902
death_place =Oslo
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nationality = Norwegian
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field =mathematics chemistry
work_institutions =University of Oslo
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known_for = law ofmass action
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influences =Peter Waage
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footnotes =Cato Maximilian Guldberg (
August 11 1836 inChristiania (todayOslo ) –January 14 1902 ,Oslo ) was a Norwegianmathematician andchemist .Law of mass action
Guldberg worked at the
University of Oslo . Together with his brother-in-law,Peter Waage , he proposed the law ofmass action . This law attracted little attention until, in 1877,Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff arrived at a similar relationship and experimentally demonstrated its validity. [cite journal | last = Waage | first = P. | coauthors = C. M. Guldberg | title = Studies Concerning Affinity | journal = Forhandlinger: Videnskabs - Selskabet i Christinia | pages = 35 | date = 1864] [cite journal | last = Abrash | first = Henry I. | title = Studies Concerning Affinity | journal = Journal of Chemical Education | volume = 63 | pages = 1044 – 1047 | date = 1986- English translation of Waage and Guldberg's 1864 paper (above)]Guldberg rule
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 thecritical temperature when measured on the absolute scale. [ cite journal|title= |journal=Z. Phys. Chem.|date=1890|first=C. M.|last=Guldberg|coauthors=|volume=5|issue=|pages=374|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-07-07 ] cite journal | author = Bowden, S. T. | year = 1954 | title = A Corrected Guldberg Rule | journal = Nature | volume = 174 | pages = 613 | doi = 10.1038/174613b0 ]References
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*cite web|url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/cato-guldberg-woc/ |title=World of Chemistry on Cato Guldberg |accessdate=2008-07-07 |publisher=Bookrags
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