Wilhelm Ostwald The Autobiography
This book is the translated and commented autobiography of Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1909. It is the first translation of the German original version “Lebenslinien: Eine Selbstbiographie,” published by Ostwald in 1926/27, and has been painstakingly transla...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Series: | Springer Biographies
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Riga-Dorpat-Riga: My parental home and childhood
- Youth
- The growing boy
- Student years
- The start of my scientific career
- Teaching and marriage
- My first appointment
- The professorship in Riga
- Germany
- Back in Riga
- My colleague
- Progress
- The appointment in Leipzig
- Part 2: Leipzig: Leaving home
- The new work place and the first fruits
- The laboratory
- At the writing desk
- The Leipzig circle
- The spread of the concept in Germany
- Impact at a distance
- Energetics
- Overload, breakdown and recovery
- The electrochemical society
- Catalysis and the new institute
- Nitrogen
- Natural philosophy
- First journey to America
- Taking leave of chemistry
- An international congress of all the arts and sciences
- Free!
- Part 3: Großbothen and the world
- The doctrine of happiness and its applications
- The exchange professor
- Country house “Energy”
- Great menand the schools
- The world language
- Festive days
- The Monist Society
- The International Union of Chemists
- The Bridge
- The energetic imperative
- World war and revolution
- The theory of colour
- The beauty of the law
- The noise of the streets and the peace of the garden