List of Famous people with last name Ostwald

Wilhelm Ostwald

First Name Wilhelm

Last Name Ostwald

Died on April 4, 1932

Born in Latvia

Friedrich Wilhelm 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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Wolfgang Ostwald

First Name Wolfgang

Last Name Ostwald

Born on May 27, 1883

Died on November 22, 1943 (aged 60)

Born in Latvia

Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald was a German chemist and biologist researching colloids.

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