Talk:Lars Onsager

message: In the "Brown University"-section it says: "[...] retiring in 1972". But in the "After Yale"-section it says "Onsager was retired [...] in 1973". Which year is true? --RLW-E (talk) 13:02, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retirement year 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 09:58, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: There is a minor edit war going on between Xxanthippe and various robots on the link to la:Laurentius Onsager. Xxanthippe: If you are serious about this, you need to edit the title of the target, not the link itself. The robots will just keep undoing your work. Better yet, discuss it on the discussion page of the target first. Hanche (talk) 20:36, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite right. I have added this comment to the Latin version: The title of this article is inappropriate. Laurentius is not Latin for Lars which suffices on its own. Have you not heard of Lars Porsena, which is on the English Wiki but not on this one? The name of this article should be changed. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:34, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Laurentius or Lars 

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message: What is the source for this: "At Yale, an embarrassing situation occurred: he had been hired as a postdoctoral fellow, but it was discovered that he had never received a Ph.D. While he had submitted an outline of his work in reciprocal relations to the Norwegian Institute of Technology, they had decided it was too incomplete to qualify as a doctoral dissertation. He was told that he could submit one of his published papers to the Yale faculty as a dissertation, but insisted on doing a new research project instead. His dissertation laid the mathematical background for his interpretation of deviations from Ohm’s law in weak electrolytes. It dealt with the solutions of the Mathieu equation of period 4 pi and certain related functions and was beyond the comprehension of the chemistry and physics faculty." It's not currently indicated; I note it's been marked "citation needed" previously, and reverted with "see sources" (which one[s]?), and my own addition of same was similarly reverted. It seems a direct citation, particularly for the element indicating Onsager's work to have been vastly beyond the comprehension of "the chemistry and physics faculty", would be justified. A visitor to the article shouldn't have to spend time trawling through all the cited sources hoping to find the answer/ if the statement is supported.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.198.188 (talk) 22:47, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Source?