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Théophile de Donder
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<p>Théophile Ernest De Donder (French: [də dɔ̃dɛʁ]; 19 August 1872 – 11 May 1957) was a <a href="/facts/Belgians/xSmHFHch">Belgian</a> mathematician, physicist and chemist famous for his work (published in 1923) in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of <a href="/facts/Chemical_affinity/IEkqFIP4">chemical affinity</a> and the Gibbsian concept of <a href="/facts/Gibbs_free_energy/bvenDuzh">free energy</a>. </p>