Wilhelm Ostwald

The program finds its mature statement in his Traité d'énergétique of 1911; it was well received by late-nineteenth-century energeticists, such as Wilhelm Ostwald and Georg Helm.

Pierre Duhem Ariew, Roger 2007

The German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald incorporated thermodynamics into a general theory of economic development.

Biophysical economics 2008

But he had the foresight to send copies of his thesis to several international chemists, and a few were impressed with his work, including the young chemists Wilhelm Ostwald and Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, who were also to become founding fathers of physical chemistry.

Arrhenius, Svante August 2008

Cottrell, born in California, graduated from Berkeley in 1896 and did one year of graduate work there; next he taught high school in Oakland for three years, then journeyed to Europe to study first with Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff in Berlin and later with Wilhelm Ostwald in Leipzig, where he received his doctorate.

Cottrell, Frederick Gardner 2008

In the same German tradition, amidst the proliferation of books on unity of science the German energeticist Wilhelm Ostwald declared the

The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007

Wilhelm Ostwald (1853 – 1932), a German physical chemist, received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on catalysis and his investigations into the fundamental principles governing equilibrium and rates of reaction.

Ostwald, Wilhelm 2007

In 1909 Mach was recommended for (and got) a Nobel because his proposer (German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, already a Nobel) thought Mach could do with the money.

American Connections James Burke 2007

In 1909 Mach was recommended for (and got) a Nobel because his proposer (German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, already a Nobel) thought Mach could do with the money.

American Connections James Burke 2007

The very example that Einstein gives here makes any such interpretation highly implausible, because one of Einstein's main goals in his early work on Brownian motion (Einstein 1905b) was precisely to prove the reality of atoms, this in the face of the then famous skepticism of thinkers like Mach and Wilhelm Ostwald:

Einstein's Philosophy of Science Howard, Don A. 2004

It has been remarked by Professor Wilhelm Ostwald that the problem of homosexuality is a problem left over to us by the Middle Ages, which for five hundred years dealt with inverts as it dealt with heretics and witches.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899