The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909
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Wilhelm Ostwald
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 was awarded to Wilhelm Ostwald "in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction"
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