trouble for declining to fill out a government form on his racial origins. He retired from his professorship but was sacked from the board of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. He lived quietly in the country; in 1937 he traveled to Oxford to receive an honorary degree, also visiting his eldest daughter, her husband, and his three grandchildren. Nernst had a severe heart attack in 1939. He died in 1941 at Gau, Lower Silesia, East Prussia (now Niwica, Poland) and was buried three times. He was buried for the first time near the place of his death. However, his remains were moved to Berlin, where he was buried a second time. Finally they were moved again and buried near Max Planck, Otto Hahn and Max von Laue in Göttingen, Germany. Honours In 1923, botanist Ignatz Urban published Nernstia, which is a genus of flowering plants from Mexico, in the family Rubiaceae and named in his honour. Publications Walther Nernst, "Reasoning of theoretical chemistry: Nine papers (1889–1921)" (Ger., Begründung der Theoretischen Chemie : Neun Abhandlungen, 1889–1921). Frankfurt am Main : Verlag Harri Deutsch, c. 2003. Walther Nernst, "The theoretical and experimental bases of the New Heat Theorem" (Ger., Die theoretischen und experimentellen Grundlagen des neuen Wärmesatzes). Halle [Ger.] W. Knapp, 1918 [tr. 1926]. [ed., this is a list of thermodynamical papers from the physico-chemical institute of the University of Berlin (1906–1916); Translation available by Guy Barr Walther Nernst, "Theoretical chemistry from the standpoint of Avogadro's law and thermodynamics" (Ger., Theoretische Chemie vom Standpunkte der Avogadroschen Regel und der Thermodynamik). Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1893 [5th edition, 1923]. See also German inventors and discoverers C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik Chain reaction Cosmological constant problem Cosmic background radiation History of electrophoresis Nernst–Einstein equation Nernst–Lewis–Latimer convention Solid state ionics Stochastic electrodynamics Threshold potential Tired light Zero-point energy References Cited sources Stone, A. Douglas (2013) Einstein and the Quantum. Princeton University Press. Further reading External links – Review of Diana Barkan's Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical Science "Hermann Walther Nernst, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920 : Prize Presentation". Presentation Speech by Professor Gerard De Geer, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Schmitt, Ulrich, "Walther Nernst". Physicochemical institute, Göttingen including the Nobel Lecture, 12 December 1921 Studies in Chemical Thermodynamics German Nobel laureates People associated with the University of Zurich Nobel laureates in Chemistry People from the Province of Prussia People from Wąbrzeźno German physical