Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1909
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Wilhelm Ostwald

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1909
in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction
Citizenship
Russian Empire Russian Empire Germany Germany
Languages
Ido, Esperanto, German
date of birth
9/2/1853
place of birth
Riga
date of death
4/4/1932
place of death
Großbothen, Grimma
Lived
78 years

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member of
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1896
  • Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 12/23/1887
  • Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala
    • start time: 1897
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1897
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1905
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 1904
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1932
  • Academy of Sciences of Turin
    • start time: 3/5/1905
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1912
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1906
  • German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • Korporatsioon Fraternitas Rigensis
educated at
  • Imperial University of Dorpat
    • end time: http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/59babda2201333f1d3f0cdd06ec1fe74
    • start time: 1872
  • Riga State Gymnasium No.1
doctoral student
  • Georg Bredig
  • Max Trautz
  • Alwin Mittasch
  • Colin G. Fink
  • Christian Füchtbauer
  • Otto Pufahl
  • George Jaffé
  • Ejnar Hertzsprung
  • Arthur Amos Noyes
  • Arthur Amos Noyes
  • Frederick G. Donnan
employer
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Leipzig University
  • Riga Technical University
  • Imperial University of Dorpat
field of work
  • physical chemistry
  • sociology
  • philosophy
  • education
  • philosophy of science
  • constructed language
occupation
  • inventor
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • philosopher
  • Esperantist
  • Idist
  • teacher
  • writer
  • painter
  • naturalist
  • sociologist
notable work
  • law of dilution
  • Ostwald process
  • Ostwald Rule of Stages
  • Energeticism
  • Ostwald ripening
work location
  • Leipzig
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