Wilhelm Ostwald
Chemist, Academic
1853 – 1932
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Who was Wilhelm Ostwald?
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. Ostwald, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Svante Arrhenius are usually credited with being the modern founders of the field of physical chemistry.
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- Born
- Sep 2, 1853
Riga - Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Prussia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Tartu
- Employment
- University of Tartu
- University of Leipzig
- Lived in
- Germany
- Latvia
- Riga
- Livonia
- Died
- Apr 4, 1932
Leipzig
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on July 23, 2013
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