The town is the birthplace of Walther Nernst which gives the standard electrode potential of an electric cell containing various concentrations of electrolytes .
Walther Nernst is a chemist who in 1920 received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Nernst equation .
The town is the birthplace of Walther Nernst , a chemist who in 1920 received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Nernst equation , which gives the standard electrode potential of an electric cell containing various concentrations of electrolytes .