Editing Walther Nernst (section)

== Personal life and family ==
Nernst married Emma Lohmeyer in 1892 with whom he had two sons and three daughters. Both of Nernst's sons died fighting in World War I. 

With his colleagues at the University of Leipzig, [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff|Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff]] and [[Svante Arrhenius]], hé was establishing the foundations of a new theoretical and experimental field of inquiry within chemistry and suggested setting fire to unused coal seams to increase the global temperature.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://www.socphyschemserb.org/media/publications/pc2016.pdf |title=Physical Chemistry 2016,13th International Conference on Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Physical Chemistry |publisher=The Society of Physical Chemists of Serbia |year=2016 |isbn=978-86-82475-33-0 |volume=II |pages=880}}</ref> He was a vocal critic of [[Adolf Hitler]] and of [[Nazism]], and two of his three daughters married [[Jew]]ish men. After Hitler came to power they emigrated, one to England and the other to Brazil.

=== Personality ===
Nernst was mechanically minded in that he was always thinking of ways to apply new discoveries to industry. His hobbies included hunting and fishing.<ref name="Nobel" /> His friend Albert Einstein was amused by "his childlike vanity and self-complacency"<ref>{{Cite web |title=W. Nernst (A. Einstein, 1942) |url=http://www.nernst.de/nernst_einstein1942.htm |website=nernst.de}}</ref> "His own study and laboratory always presented aspects of extreme chaos which his coworkers termed appropriately 'the state of maximum entropy'".<ref>Mendelssohn 1973, p. 70.</ref>