What is Wilhelm Ostwald?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Wilhelm Ostwald |image = Wilhelm Ostwald by Nicola Perscheid.jpg |image_size= |caption = Wilhelm Ostwald by [[Nicola Perscheid]] |birth_name=Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1853|9|2}} |birth_place = [[Riga]], [[Governorate of Livonia]], [[Russian Empire]] (now [[Latvia]]) |nationality = [[Baltic German]] by birth. [[Prussian]], [[Germans|German]] (after 1871) |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1932|4|4|1853|9|2}} |death_place = [[Großbothen]] near [[Leipzig]], [[Weimar Republic|Germany]] |field = [[Chemistry|Physical chemistry]] |work_institution = [[University of Dorpat]]<br>[[Riga Polytechnicum]]<br>[[University of Leipzig]] |alma_mater = [[University of Dorpat]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Carl Schmidt (chemist)|Carl Schmidt]]{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} |doctoral_students = [[Arthur Amos Noyes]]<br>[[Georg Bredig]]<br> [[Paul Walden]]<br>[[Frederick George Donnan]]<!-- <br>[[Louis Albrecht Kahlenberg]]<br>[[Robert Thomas Diedrich Luther]]<br>[[John Livingston Rutgers Morgan]]<br>[[James Walker]]--> |known_for = [[Catalysis]]<br>[[Mole (unit)|Coining the term 'Mole']]<br>[[HSL and HSV]]<br>[[Liesegang rings (geology)|Liesegang rings]]<br>[[Ostwald dilution law]]<br>[[Ostwald process]]<br>[[Ostwald ripening]]<br>[[Ostwald's rule]]<br>[[viscometer|Ostwald viscometer]]<br>[[Pipette|Ostwald-Folin Pipette]]<br>[[Ostwald–Freundlich equation]] |prizes = [[Faraday Lectureship Prize]] (1904)<br>[[Nobel Prize for Chemistry]] (1909) }} '''Wilhelm Ostwald''' (23 September 1853 - 4 April 1932) was a Latvian-German chemist born in [[Riga]], [[Latvia]], winner of the [[1909]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]. His parents are Elizabeth Leuckel and Gottfried Wilhelm Ostwald. His son is Wolfgang Ostwald. Wilhelm Ostwald was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 and it is Latvia's only Nobel prize. Although he was a German chemist, he was born in Latvia so the Nobel prize went to Latvia. {{Nobelprize|Chemistry}} {{Nobel Prize in Chemistry}} {{bio-stub}}