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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 ...
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 ...
A three-dimensional drawing of Wilhelm Ostwald’s color system. In colorimetry, the Ostwald color system is a color space that was invented by the Baltic German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald. Associated with The Color Harmony Manual, it comprises a set of paint chips representing the Ostwald color space. There are four different editions of the ...
Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften. Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften (English: Ostwald's classics of the exact sciences) is a German book series that contains important original works from all areas of natural sciences. It was founded in 1889 by the physical chemist Wilhelm Ostwald and is now published by Europa-Lehrmittel .
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.
Frederick G. Donnan. Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. ( Dutch: [vɑn (ə)t ˈɦɔf]; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [3] [4] [5] His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical ...
Commemorative plaque at the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute, University of Leipzig Between 1898 and 1933. Wilhelm Ostwald was at the height of his research at the time the institute was founded. Around 1900, he devoted himself in particular to experimental investigations on catalysis and chemical kinetics. In addition, time as an experimental ...
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 ...