CHEMIST

Wilhelm Ostwald

1853 - 1932

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Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɔstˌvalt] ; 2 September [O.S. 21 August] 1853 – 4 April 1932) was a German chemist and philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Ostwald has received more than 383,955 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Wilhelm Ostwald is the 14th most popular chemist (up from 16th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Latvia and the most popular Latvian Chemist.

Wilhelm Ostwald was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis. Ostwald developed the theory of catalysis, which is the process by which a chemical reaction takes place.

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Among chemists, Wilhelm Ostwald ranks 14 out of 602. Before him are Amedeo Avogadro, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, Fritz Haber, and Carl Wilhelm Scheele. After him are Otto Hahn, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Linus Pauling, Edwin McMillan, and Friedrich Wöhler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Wilhelm Ostwald ranks 4. Before him are Vincent van Gogh, Cecil Rhodes, and Hendrik Lorentz. After him are Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Carl Larsson, Chulalongkorn, Albrecht Kossel, Aleksei Brusilov, José Martí, and Vladimir Solovyov. Among people deceased in 1932, Wilhelm Ostwald ranks 1. After him are Archduchess Gisela of Austria, Eduard Bernstein, Manuel II of Portugal, Giuseppe Peano, Aristide Briand, Paul Doumer, Gustav Meyrink, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Errico Malatesta, and George Eastman.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Wilhelm Ostwald ranks 2 out of 323. Before him are Sergei Eisenstein (1898). After him are Mark Rothko (1903), Mikhail Tal (1936), Isaiah Berlin (1909), Mariss Jansons (1943), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Kārlis Ulmanis (1877), Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), and Jacob Kettler (1610).

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Among CHEMISTS In Latvia

Among chemists born in Latvia, Wilhelm Ostwald ranks 1. After him are Paul Walden (1863), Lina Stern (1878), and Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838).

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