Friedrich wilhelm ostwald biography of albert

by Mi Gyung Kim*

  

Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) was one of the most celebrated German scientists at the turn of the twentieth century.

Biography.

Wilhelm Ostwald was an eminent Russian-German chemist and philosopher who was a key figure in the development of physical chemistry as a recognized branch of.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald was a German chemist and philosopher.

As a scientific prophet that led a mass exodus from the church, he envisioned a new century of organization and organizers based on the efficient use of energy.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald was born on September 2, at Riga, Latvia, Russia to Gottfried Ostwald, a master cooper and Elisabeth Leuckel.

He gained an early reputation as a leading figure in the studies of chemical affinity, then the central theoretical question in chemistry. In the 1870s, he coordinated the previously disparate concerns about affinity into collaborative efforts and an independent discipline of physical chemistry by writing voluminous textbooks, founding the Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, and expanding the Leipzig Institute.

His laboratory became a site of pilgrimage for aspiring scientists worldwide, as can be seen in the Einstein’s 1901 letters soliciting an assistantship.[1] It was in recognition of his international renown that the Prussian Kultusministerium solicited and appointed him as the first exchange professor to Harvard University in 1905.[2] He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1909.