Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted ( born February 22, 1879 in Varde, Jutland, † December 17, 1947 in Copenhagen) was a Danish chemist.

Brønsted studied chemistry at the University of Copenhagen and in 1908 received his doctorate in the same year he received a professorship in physical and inorganic chemistry. Technically he specialized in thermodynamics. Derives its today Brønsted - Lowry called proton theory of acids and bases from the year 1923. Brønsted and Thomas Lowry had come independently to the same definition.

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In some German textbooks the name incorrectly Bronsted, Bronsted or Bronsted is written.