Lars

Porsena, Lars: see Lars Porsena.

Onsager, Lars, 1903-76, American physical chemist, b. Oslo, Ph.D. Yale, 1935. Onsager taught at Brown Univ. from 1928 to 1933 and was on the faculty at Yale from 1933 until his retirement in 1972. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for his work on the thermodynamics of irreversible chemical processes. Onsager demonstrated that reciprocal relations exist between such variables as temperature and pressure in irreversible chemical processes, and the mathematical expressions he derived to describe this behavior enabled a complete theoretical description of such processes. The Onsager reciprocal relations are now known collectively as the fourth law of thermodynamics.

Ahlin, Lars, 1915-, Swedish novelist. Ahlin's works are marked by great creative vitality, psychological realism, and a concern with spiritual values. His first novel, Tåbb med manifestet [Tåbb with the manifesto] (1943), portrays an unemployed man whose growing disenchantment with Communism leads to a spiritual search. Although Ahlin's novel If (1946) was criticized for narrative meandering and excessive religious theorizing, Kanelbiten (1953, tr. Cinnamoncandy, 1990) won him critical acclaim. During the next few decades his literary output declined sharply. The novel Hannibal segraren [Hannibal the conqueror] (1983), which he wrote with Gunnel Ahlin, his wife, was followed by the autobiographical novel Sjätte munnen [the sixth mouth] (1985). His baring of human foibles and self-deceptions and his vision of life as bizarre are reminiscent of Dostoyevsky.

Lars-Henrik Michelsen (born 23 April 1981) was president of Young Liberals of Norway from 2003 to 2007.

He serves as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland during the term 2005–2009.

He supports a greener and more liberal Norway. Michelsen supports the entry of Norway into the "warmth of Europe", the European Union, although the parent party Venstre ("Left") does not agree. As of 2005, Michelsen worked towards modernising the Young Liberals by introducing blogging, house-visiting and telephone-calling to get a more direct contact with the politicians. These methods are not yet considered normal for political parties in Norway.

References

• Stortinget.no - Biography

External links

• Lars-Henrik Michelsen's political blogs