Editing Walther Nernst (section)

===Studies===

[[File:Walther Nernst.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Walther Nernst in 1889.]]
Nernst started undergraduate studies at the [[University of Zurich|University of Zürich]] in 1883, then after an interlude in [[university of Berlin|Berlin]], he returned to Zürich.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nernst.de/|title=Walther Nernst Memorial|website=www.nernst.de}}</ref> He wrote his thesis at [[University of Graz]], where [[Ludwig Boltzmann]] was professor, though he worked under the direction of [[Albert von Ettingshausen|Albert von Ettinghausen]]. They discovered the [[Ettingshausen effect|Ettingshausen]] and [[Nernst effect]]s: that a magnetic field applied perpendicular to a metallic conductor in a temperature gradient gives rise to an electrical potential difference, reciprocally, an electric potential difference produces a thermal gradient. Next, he moved to the [[University of Würzburg]] under [[Friedrich Kohlrausch (physicist)|Friedrich Kohlrausch]] where he submitted and defended his thesis.