Word: ostwald
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...University has invited Professor Wilhelm Ostwald of the University of Leipzig to serve as lecturer in the first half of the coming academic year, under the arrangement for an exchange of professors which has recently been agreed upon by Harvard University and the German Government...
Professor Ostwald is regarded as one of the founders of the modern science of physical chemistry; and he has achieved a position of the highest rank in the scientific world, not only as an investigator and thinker but also as a reformer, organizer, and teacher in the field of natural science. With J. H. van't Hoff, who received the degree of LL.D., from Harvard in 1901, Ostwald founded in 1887 the Zeitschrift fur physikalische chemie, and in 1901, the Annalen der Naturphilosophie. In 1904 he gave the Faraday Lecture before the Royal Society. he has been a prolific...
...Club with the Chemical Society of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be held at the Technology Union, this evening at 8 o'clock. Professor A. A. Noyes, of the Institute of Technology, will address the meeting on "The New Process of Photographic Printing, designated 'Catatypy,' invented by Professor Ostwald of Leipsic, Germany." The speaker will describe the method, which is based on a purely chemical process entirely independent of exposure to any kind of light. Prints prepared by the process will be exhibited and illustrative experiments shown...