The Onsager Fellowship Programme is designed to recruit young, internationally recognized researchers to strengthen the university's academic community.
The Onsager Fellowship programme is named after the Norwegian-American chemist and physicist Lars Onsager (1903–1976) (Wikipedia)
He received a Ch.E. degree from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, that later became NTNU, in 1925. In 1968 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work done in 1931 on irreversible thermodynamics.
