Nernst
WALTER, German scientist; born in 1864 at Briesen, Prussia, he was a student at Zürich, Berlin, Graz, and Würzburg; in 1887 was appointed assistant to Ostwald, and in 1889 became professor of physics at Leipsic University. In 1891 he became professor of Göttingen, and in 1905 at Berlin. In 1907 he published in German and English a series of lectures delivered by him at Yale on applications of thermodynamics to chemistry. The Nernst incandescent electric lamps which he invented was one of the first of its class. He has published several works on physics in German. covered and defeated. That of Galba, however, proved more successful, and Nero being abandoned by his flatterers, put an end to his existence near Rome, June 9, 68 A. D.