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Van't Hoff Jacobus Hendricus was born on August 30, 1852 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Van't Hoff Jacobus Hendricus was born on August 30, 1852 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Van't Hoff Jacobus Hendricus studied from 1869 to 1871 at the polytechnic at Delft, in 1871 at the university of Leiden, in 1872 with F. A. Kekule at Borin, in 1873 with C. A. Wurtz at Paris, and in 1874, when he took his doctor's degree, with E. Mulder at Utrecht.
In 1876 he became lecturer on physics at the veterinary school at Utrecht, and two years later he was chosen professor of chemistry, mineralogy and geology in Amsterdam University.
In 1894 he declined an invitation to the chair of physics at Berlin University, but in 1896 he went to Berlin as professor to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, with a salary and a laboratory, but freedom to do whatever he liked; and at the same time he accepted an honorary professorship in the university so that he might lecture if he were so minded.
In 1873 Van't Hoff Jacobus Hendricus went to Paris to study with C. A. Wurtz.
He returned to the Netherlands to take his doctorate with G. H. Mulder at Utrecht in 1874.
The first great contribution by van't Hoff, his concept of the asymmetric carbon atom, occurred in August 1874.
From 1874 to 1884 van't Hoff's attention was mainly given to the law of mass- action, and he established the theorem known by his name, which connects quantitative displacement of equilibrium with change of temperature.
The second work of great importance was announced in 1884, a law of chemical dynamics expressed mathematically as the van't Hoff isochor.
In this same work van't Hoff introduced the concept of chemical affinity (free energy), showing how it could be calculated from physical measurements (osmotic pressure and electromotive force) and could be used to predict the direction of a reaction.
From 1885 to 1895 he was engaged on the theory of solutions, and developing the analogy between dilute solutions and gases he showed that the osmotic pressure of a solution has the same value as the pressure that solute would exert if it were contained as a gas in the same volume as is occupied by the solution.
In 1885 he published the Zeitschrift fur physikalische Chemie, in collaboration with Professor W. Ostwald of Leipzig.
The third great field of van't Hoff's endeavor was with dilute solutions: studies in osmotic pressure, showing that substances in dilute solution obeyed the same laws as gases.
In respect of his doctrine of the " asymmetric carbon atom, " van't Hoff's name is generally linked with that of J. A. le Bel (born on the 21st of January 1847, at Pechelbronn, Lower Alsace), who, only two months later, independently enunciated the theory of asymmetric combinations with carbon; though it must be noted that J. Wislicenus, to whom van't Hoff, in fact, acknowledged his indebtedness, had already suggested that in order to explain the constitution of certain organic bodies, the tridimensional arrangement of atoms in space must be taken into account.
Van 't Hoff died at the age of 58, on 1 March 1911, at Steglitz, near Berlin, from tuberculosis.
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In 1885, Van 't Hoff was appointed as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1897.
In 1878, Van 't Hoff married Johanna Francina Mees. They had two daughters, Johanna Francina (b. 1880) and Aleida Jacoba (b. 1882), and two sons, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff III (b. 1883) and Govert Jacob (b. 1889).