Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Dutch physical and organic chemist

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1852

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 01-Mar-1911

Profession: engineer, professor, physicist, geologist, chemist, university teacher, researcher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Jacobus Henricus "Henry" van 't Hoff, Jr.
(Dutch: [v?n (?)t '??f]; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemist.
A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics.
In his 1874 pamphlet van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry.
In 1875, he predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality.
He is also widely considered one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today.