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Wilhelm Ostwald
 
Date of birth: 02 September 1853
Date of death: 04 April 1932
Country Of Origin: Germany
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" Amongst the many happy moments of what has been a life filled with a profusion of gratifying occasions, I am aware of only one which I can compare with the present occasion, and that is the first scientific recognition ever which I received publicly at the very outset of my career. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" At present the main task is still essentially to discover and scientifically to establish the various cases of catalysis. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" Consequently, even in this personal special case, the great unity of all science stands out decisively as a general regulative principle. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" For catalysis based on intermediate reactions, however, it is possible to state that the substances must be related in a way favourable to the occurrence of such possible intermediate reactions which proceed collectively at a much faster rate than the immediate or main reaction. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" 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. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" I have already stressed that there is no decisive reason to assume that all catalyses can be attributed to such intermediate reactions; yet it must be conceded that no other equally effective principle has hitherto been found in the theory of catalysis. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" I remember how, shortly before, Lothar Meyer had urgently warned against overworking since he himself had experienced its malicious consequences. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" In Berzelius, therefore, we have above all else to honour a master in the art of formulating chemical concepts and it is no wonder that he has a decisive bearing on the concept formulation with which we are concerned today. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" 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. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" In sum, therefore, it may be stated that Berzelius' definition had almost attained the acme of perfection possible in his day but the most important concept for a successful mastery in theoretical terms of the overall phenomenon was still lacking. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" 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. "

Wilhelm Ostwald
" It thus came about that although towards the end of the 1890's my colleagues and pupils had begun on a wide scale to investigate catalytic phenomena, I myself was almost unable to take an active, personal part in the experimental work involved. "

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