The Onsager Medal is a scholastic presentation and award given on behalf of the Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-born American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.He held the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University....

 Family to a lecturer or professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology , commonly known as NTNU, is located in Trondheim. NTNU is the second largest of the eight universities in Norway, and, as its name suggests, has the main national responsibility for higher education in engineering and technology...

. The medal, designed by Harald Wårvik, commemorates the efforts of a single individual as chosen by the Onsager committee.

The 2011 Lars Onsager Professorship has been awarded to Dr. George W. Scherer, W. L. Knapp Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

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