Wilhelm Ostwald
Wilhelm Ostwald
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwaldwas a Russian-German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. Ostwald, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, and Svante Arrhenius are usually credited with being the modern founders of the field of physical chemistry...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth2 September 1853
CountryGermany
assumption basis coherence forms general means provides survey
The general assumption of coherence of the world, which as we know forms the basis of all science, provides the means to survey such types.
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Consequently, even in this personal special case, the great unity of all science stands out decisively as a general regulative principle.
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Nevertheless, the experimental proof is so much more convincing than such a general consideration that great weight attaches to it in any case.
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The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.
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The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.
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Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.
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In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.
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In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
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For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
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It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the highest scientific distinction that there is today has been awarded for those on catalysis.