Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Fisicoquímica" in Galician language version.
In the 1880's Russia already had a long but tenuous tradition in physical chemistry. In 1752-56, Lomonosov wrote and lectured on a new science, which he named “physical chemistry” and identified as the primary science for studying the structure of matter.
The Dutch physicist ans discoverer of superconductivity, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, initially introduces the term enthalpy at the first meeting of the institute of Refrigeration in Paris in 1908. He had derived the name enthalpy from Greek word “enthalpos” (ἔνθαλπος).
Josiah Willard Gibbs (America, 1839-1903) introduced the “head function at constant pressure” in 1875. Other scientists defined the modern term enthalpy later. The thermodynamic potential (enthalpy) was defined by the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) in the early 20th century.
