Van ’t Hoff’s Amsterdam lab becomes historic chemical landmark
Now a café and exhibition space, the building once contained the first chemistry Nobel prize winner’s research space
The Amsterdam building that was once physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff’s lab has been declared a chemical landmark by the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society. From 1877 until 1891, van ’t Hoff conducted groundbreaking experiments in the small space, including discovering the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure, which would win him the very first Nobel prize in 1901.