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Walther Nernst

Walther Nernst was a super smart guy who was really interested in science. He was born a long time ago, in 1864, in Germany. He learned a lot of things about how different substances can create electricity when they are mixed together, which is called electrochemistry.

One of the things that Nernst was famous for was coming up with something called the Nernst equation. This equation helps scientists figure out how much voltage, or electrical energy, can be created by different chemicals when they are mixed together.

Nernst also did a lot of other cool things with science, like studying how temperature can affect chemical reactions, and figuring out how to make really pure versions of different chemicals. He was so good at science that he won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1920.

Overall, Walther Nernst was a really smart and important scientist who helped us understand how different chemicals can create electricity and do other cool things.