Wilhelm Ostwald
1853 CE–1932 CE · Riga
Wilhelm Friedrich Ostwald (German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɔstvalt] ; 2 September [O.S. 21 August] 1853 – 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 Arrhenius. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his scientific contributions to the fields of catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. Following his 1906 retirement from academic life, Ostwald became much involved in philosophy, art, and politics. He made significant contributions to each of these fields. He has been described as a polymath.
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Riga, the capital of Latvia, had a substantial Jewish community in the modern era and was a center of Jewish cultural and religious life in the Baltic. The Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn resided there for several years in the late 1920s before relocating his court; Riga was also the birthplace of the scholars Nechama and Yeshayahu Leibowitz.
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- Thomas Edison· 1847 CE–1931 CE
- Gottlob Frege· 1848 CE–1925 CE
- Ivan Pavlov· 1849 CE–1936 CE
- Felix Klein· 1849 CE–1925 CE
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal· 1852 CE–1934 CE
- Albert A. Michelson· 1852 CE–1931 CE
- Emil Fischer· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Hendrik Lorentz· 1853 CE–1928 CE
- Emil von Behring· 1854 CE–1917 CE
- Andrey Markov· 1856 CE–1922 CE
- Sigmund Freud· 1856 CE–1939 CE
- J. J. Thomson· 1856 CE–1940 CE
- Nikola Tesla· 1856 CE–1943 CE
- Giuseppe Peano· 1858 CE–1932 CE
- Émile Durkheim· 1858 CE–1917 CE
- Jagadish Chandra Bose· 1858 CE–1937 CE
- Rudolf Diesel· 1858 CE–1913 CE
- Franz Boas· 1858 CE–1942 CE
- Svante Arrhenius· 1859 CE–1927 CE
- Wilhelm Wien· 1864 CE–1928 CE
- Hermann Minkowski· 1864 CE–1909 CE
- August von Wassermann· 1866 CE–1925 CE
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt· 1868 CE–1921 CE
- Karl Schwarzschild· 1873 CE–1916 CE
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- Nicholas II· 1868 CE–1918 CE
- William Howard Taft· 1857 CE–1930 CE
- Mehmed VI· 1861 CE–1926 CE
- Wovoka (Jack Wilson)· 1856 CE–1932 CE
- Warren G. Harding· 1865 CE–1923 CE
- Paul von Hindenburg· 1847 CE–1934 CE
- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Sun Yat-sen· 1866 CE–1925 CE
- Guangxu Emperor· 1871 CE–1908 CE
- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Vladimir Lenin· 1870 CE–1924 CE
- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Friedrich Ebert· 1871 CE–1925 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
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