Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (27 May 1883 – 22 November 1943) was a German
chemist
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and
biologist
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researching
colloids.
Ostwald was born in
Riga, the son of the 1909 winner of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Wilhelm Ostwald
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (; 4 April 1932) 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 Arrhen ...
,
and died in
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...
.
Books
* ''Grundriß der Kolloidchemie'' (Basics of colloid chemistry, 1909)
* ''Die Welt der vernachlässigten Dimensionen'' (The world of neglected dimensions, 1914)
References
See also
*
List of Baltic German scientists
1883 births
1943 deaths
Scientists from Riga
People from the Governorate of Livonia
Baltic-German people
20th-century German chemists
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany
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