Alphabetical Index
Index by Year of Birth
Nobel Prize
laureates
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald
1909 Ch
* 1853 in Riga
+ 1932 in Leipzig
German chemist.
He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work
on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities.
Ostwald was one of the founders of physical chemistry.
2017 J. Giesen