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  2. Wilhelm Ostwald - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Wilhelm Ostwald. Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald ( German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɔstˌvalt] ⓘ; 2 September [ O.S. 21 August] 1853 – 4 April 1932) 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 ...

  3. Wilhelm Ostwald Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute (University of Leipzig, Germany) in summer 2021. The Wilhelm Ostwald Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig, located at Linnéstraße 2 in Leipzig, is the oldest physical chemistry institute in Germany. It is one of seven institutes of the Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy ...

  4. Max Bodenstein - Wikipedia

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    Max Ernst August Bodenstein (July 15, 1871 – September 3, 1942) was a German physical chemist known for his work in chemical kinetics. He was first to postulate a chain reaction mechanism and that explosions are branched chain reactions, later applied to the atomic bomb .

  5. Svante Arrhenius - Wikipedia

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    Oskar Benjamin Klein. Svante August Arrhenius ( / əˈriːniəs, əˈreɪniəs / ə-REE-nee-əs, -⁠RAY-, [3] [4] Swedish: [ˈsvânːtɛ aˈrěːnɪɵs]; 19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry.

  6. Weltdeutsch - Wikipedia

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    Weltdeutsch ( German pronunciation: [ˈvɛltdɔɪtʃ] ⓘ VELT-doych, lit. 'World-German') was a proposal for a German-based zonal international auxiliary language by chemist and interlinguist Wilhelm Ostwald. [1] Published in 1916 in Ostwald's Monistic Sunday Sermons ( German: Monistische Sonntagspredigten ), Weltdeutsch was a reflection of ...

  7. Social Darwinism - Wikipedia

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    Haeckel's works led to the formation of the Monist League in 1904 with many prominent citizens among its members, including the Nobel Prize winner Wilhelm Ostwald. The simpler aspects of social Darwinism followed the earlier Malthusian ideas that humans, especially males, require competition in their lives to survive.

  8. History of electrochemistry - Wikipedia

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    History of electrochemistry. Electrochemistry, a branch of chemistry, went through several changes during its evolution from early principles related to magnets in the early 16th and 17th centuries, to complex theories involving conductivity, electric charge and mathematical methods. The term electrochemistry was used to describe electrical ...

  9. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - Wikipedia

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    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus at Wikisource. The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) is the only book-length philosophical work by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein that was published during his lifetime. The project had a broad goal: to identify the relationship between language and reality, and to ...