The Göttingen Period: The Rise to World Fame (1890 – 1905)

The following sections are included:

• The Georgia Augusta University in Göttingen

• Eduard Riecke, Felix Klein, and Mathematics in Göttingen

• Early Studies in Göttingen: The Nernst Distribution Law

• Marriage with Emma Lohmeyer and the Walther Nernst Family

• The Textbook “Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule and Themodynamics”

• The First Professorship and the Establishment of a Chair of Physical Chemistry

• The New Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electro- chemistry

• Studies and Members in the New Institute

• The Nernst Lamp

• Nernst Law of Electrical Nerve Stimulus Threshold (Reizschwellengesetz)

• The Construction of Instruments

• Mathematics and Chemistry