Wilhelm Ostwald
✶September 2, 1853
†April 4, 1932
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†April 4, 1932
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Wilhelm Friedrich Ostwald was a Baltic German chemist and philosopher. Ostwald is credited with being one of the founders of the field of physical chemistry, with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Walther Nernst and Svante Arrhenius.
He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his scientific contributions to the fields of catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities.
Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
Biography from the article Wilhelm Ostwald on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.