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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909

"in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction"
Wilhelm Ostwald
Wilhelm Ostwald
Germany
Leipzig University
Leipzig, Germany
b. 1853
(in Riga, then Russia)
d. 1932
 
 
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