| Authorised form of name | Hoff; Jacobus Hendrik Van't (1852 - 1911) |
| Other forms of name | Jacobus Hendrik |
| Other forms of surname | Van't Hoff |
| Dates | 1852 - 1911 |
| Place of birth | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Date of birth | 30 August 1852 |
| Place of death | Stegliz, Germany |
| Date of death | 01/03/1911 |
| Research field | Physical chemistry |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1901 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 25/11/1897 |
| Royal Society activity | Medals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1893 |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1911-1912 vol 86 pp xxxix-xliii signed by F G D
References:
J S Rowlinson, 'Gases and liquids. How fluids unmix: discoveries by the school of Van der Waals and Kamerlingh Onnes, by J L Sengers' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 255-256 |
| Royal Society code | NA2285 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MS/373/1/18 | Letter from Jacobus Hendrick van 't Hoff, to [Thomas Edward] Thorpe | 11 October 1890 |
| NLB/8/143 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor William Augustus Tilden, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 July 1893 |
| NLB/8/476 | Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Jacobus Hendrik van 't Hoff, Stadtouderskade 103, Amsterdam | 3 November 1893 |
| NLB/8/474 | Copy letter from Michael Foster, to the Honorable Sir C W Fremantle | 2 November 1893 |
| NLB/17/289 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Professor Jacobus Hendrik Van't Hoff, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 3 October 1898 |
| PP/17/21 | Paper, 'Some suggestions regarding solutions' by William Ramsay | 1891 |
| RR/15/402 | Letter from Meyer Wilderman, on his paper 'Chemical dynamics and statics in light' to Joseph Larmor | 5 April 1902 |
| EC/1897/26 | Hoff, Jacobus Hendrik Van't: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/23/370 | Letter from [William] Ramsay, University College, Gower Street, London, to [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society] | 6 April 1908 |
| MC/17 | Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1897-1899 |
| MC/26/66 | Letter from [Frederick George] Donnan, Muspratt Laboratory, University of Liverpool, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 1 April 1911 |
| MC/26/69 | Post Office Telegraph from [Frederick George] Donnan, Liverpool, to Sir Joseph Larmor, Royal Society, London | July 1911 |