Wilhelm Ostwald
Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
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Physical chemistry wouldn't exist without Ostwald's work on catalysis and reaction rates. The Baltic German chemist took home the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for basically founding an entire field alongside van 't Hoff, Nernst, and Arrhenius.
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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.
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