Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff was the first person to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was a Dutch physicist and organic chemist, who became the first to propose a three-dimensional model for the structure of simple carbon compounds. His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, and chemical thermodynamics.
He is also widely considered as one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today.
Jacobus Henricus was born in Netherlands, and earned his doctorate in Utrecht in 1874. In 1885, van’t Hoff was appointed as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901. Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff died on 1st March, 1911.
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