Peter Waage

Peter Waage
Guldberg and Waage
Born	29 June 1833 Flekkefjord
Died	13 January 1900 (aged 66) Kristiania
Nationality	Norwegian
Fields	chemistry
Institutions	Royal Frederick University
Known for	law of mass action

Peter Waage (29 June 1833 – 13 January 1900), the son of a ship's captain, was a significant Norwegian chemist and professor at the Royal Frederick University. Along with his brother-in-law Cato Maximilian Guldberg, he co-discovered and developed the law of mass action between 1864 and 1879.^[1]

He grew up in Hidra. He was chairman of the Norwegian Polytechnic Society from 1868 to 1869, and the first chairman of the Norwegian branch of the YMCA when it was established in 1880.

Publications

• Waage, P.; C. M. Guldberg (1864). "Studies Concerning Affinity". Forhandlinger: Videnskabs - Selskabet i Christinia (Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters): 35.
• Abrash, Henry I.; Gulberg, C. M. (1986). "Studies Concerning Affinity". Journal of Chemical Education 63: 1044–1047. Bibcode:1986JChEd..63.1044W. doi:10.1021/ed063p1044.- English translation of Waage and Guldberg's 1864 paper (above)

References

1. Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 2nd Revised edition