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 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

educated at: Imperial University of Dorpat

start time: 1/1/1872
end time: http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/59babda2201333f1d3f0cdd06ec1fe74

Riga State Gymnasium No.1
member of: American Philosophical Society

start time: 1/1/1912

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

start time: 1/1/1904

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

start time: 1/1/1905

Academy of Sciences of Turin

start time: 3/5/1905

National Academy of Sciences

start time: 1/1/1906

Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala

start time: 1/1/1897

Russian Academy of Sciences

start time: 1/1/1896

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

start time: 1/1/1897

Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities

start time: 12/23/1887

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

start time: 1/1/1932

German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
Korporatsioon Fraternitas Rigensis
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
sociologist
painter
naturalist
notable work: law of dilution
Ostwald process
Ostwald Rule of Stages
Energeticism
Ostwald ripening
work location: Leipzig

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