Wilhelm Ostwald
Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
Wilhelm Ostwald (23 September 1853 - 4 April 1932) was a Latvian-German chemist born in Riga, Latvia, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Wilhelm Ostwald | |
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 Wilhelm Ostwald by Nicola Perscheid | |
| Born | Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald 2 September 1853 |
| Died | 4 April 1932 (aged 78) |
| Nationality | Baltic German by birth. Prussian, German (after 1871) |
| Alma mater | University of Dorpat |
| Known for | Catalysis Coining the term 'Mole' HSL and HSV Liesegang rings Ostwald dilution law Ostwald process Ostwald ripening Ostwald's rule Ostwald viscometer Ostwald-Folin Pipette Ostwald–Freundlich equation |
| Awards | Faraday Lectureship Prize (1904) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1909) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physical chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Dorpat Riga Polytechnicum University of Leipzig |
| Doctoral advisor | Carl Schmidt[source?] |
| Doctoral students | Arthur Amos Noyes Georg Bredig Paul Walden Frederick George Donnan |
His parents are Elizabeth Leuckel and Gottfried Wilhelm Ostwald. His son is Wolfgang Ostwald. Wilhelm Ostwald was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 and it is Latvia's only Nobel prize. Although he was a German chemist, he was born in Latvia so the Nobel prize went to Latvia.
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