Award in Pure Chemistry, the Richards Medal, and the Lewis Award, Onsager's tombstone, in its original form, simply said "Nobel Laureate". When Onsager's wife Gretel died in 1991 and was buried there, his children added an asterisk after "Nobel Laureate," and "*etc." in the lower right corner of the stone. Legacy The Norwegian Institute of Technology established the Lars Onsager Lecture and The Lars Onsager Professorship in 1993 to award outstanding scientists in the scientific fields of Lars Onsager; Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. The American Physical Society established Lars Onsager Prize in statistical physics in 1993. In 1997 his sons and daughter donated his scientific works and professional belongings to NTNU (before 1996 NTH) in Trondheim, Norway as his alma mater. These are now organized as The Lars Onsager Archive at the Gunnerus Library in Trondheim. See also Lattice density functional theory (1944) solution to a two-dimensional (2D) lattice problem References External links Lars Onsager papers (MS 794). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. The Lars Onsager Lecture and Professorship (Norwegian University of Science And Technology) The Lars Onsager Archive at Universitetsbiblioteket/Gunnerus Library in Trondheim. (Norwegian University of Science And Technology) The Onsager Committee (Norwegian University of Science And Technology) The Lars Onsager Lecture and The Lars Onsager Professorship (Norwegian University of Science And Technology). The Motion of Ions: Principles and Concepts (Lars Onsager's Nobel Lecture) 1903 births 1976 deaths American physical chemists American Nobel laureates 20th-century American physicists Brown University faculty National Medal of Science laureates Nobel laureates in Chemistry Norwegian physical chemists Engineers from Oslo Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni Norwegian Nobel laureates Thermodynamicists Yale University faculty Burials at Grove Street Cemetery Norwegian emigrants to the United States Theoretical physicists Lorentz Medal winners Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Foreign Members of the Royal Society Mathematical physicists Yale University alumni Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the American Philosophical Society Fellows of the American Physical Society