Wilhelm Ostwald
- Born in 1853 in Riga (Lativa)
- Founder and organizer of physical chemistry
- Since 1887 first German professor of physical chemistry in Leipzig
- Declining 1906
- Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1909
- Author of 45 books, about 500 articles and 5.000 reviews, editor of six journals
- Died in 1932 in Leipzig
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