Niels Bjerrum

Niels Bjerrum Janniksen ( born March 11, 1879 in Copenhagen, † September 30, 1958 ) was a Danish chemist.

Life

Bjerrum was from 1914 professor at the University of Copenhagen. Especially in appearance, he stepped through his work in various fields, including via the acid -base concepts, and the activity coefficients. He has contributed significantly to the understanding of electrolytic dissociation. Further areas of concern, inter alia, the complex salts and the heat capacities of gases. According to him, the Bjerrum length is named.