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This essay was originally written for the Royal Society of London and appeared in theBiographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 24, (Royal Society, London: November 1978) pp. 443–471. In 1989–1990 the text was corrected in various places, a few new references were added and the bibliography of Onsager's published work was completed. The biography so revised was republished in theBiographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D. C., and appeared in Volume 60 of that series (pp. 183–232). It is reproduced here (in the revised form with a few further corrections) with the permission of the National Academy of Sciences. This memoir stands in for the First Lars Onsager Lecture entitledLars Onsager 1903–1976; Theorist for the Twentieth Century, delivered by Michael E. Fisher on June 2, 1993 at the Lars Onsager Symposium, held at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim.
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Christopher Longuet-Higgins, H., Fisher, M.E. Lars Onsager: November 27, 1903–October 5, 1976. J Stat Phys 78, 605–640 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02183371
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