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A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1909: Wilhelm Ostwald

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Josh Van Houten

Department of Chemistry, Saint Michael''s College, Colchester, VT 05439

J. Chem. Educ., 2002, 79 (2), p 146

DOI: 10.1021/ed079p146

Publication Date (Web): February 1, 2002

Section:

History, Education, and Documentation

Abstract

This, the third of a series of thirteen articles on Nobel Laureates in chemical dynamics, features the work of Wilhelm Ostwald, who won the Nobel Prize in 1909 for his work on catalysis, equilibria, and reaction rates. The first two articles in this series discussed two of Ostwald's students--Jacobus van't Hoff (Nobel 1901) and Svante Arrhenius (Nobel 1903). Ostwald's own studies of catalysis were guided by the work of those two former students. Ostwald's name remains associated with the catalytic process used to manufacture nitric acid from ammonia.

Keywords (Audience):

General Public

Keywords (Domain):

History / Philosophy

Keywords (Feature):

Nobel Centennial Essays

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