Ostwald (disambiguation)
Ostwald has the following meanings:
- Ostwald , a city in Alsace
- Ostwald (moon crater) , a moon crater
- Ostwald coefficient , solubility coefficient with symbol L
- Ostwald-Miers range , temperature range of a liquid
- Ostwald ripening , dissolving of small crystals in favor of larger ones because of the lower surface energy.
- Ostwald's rule of degrees and Ostwald-Volmer's rule
- Ostwald's law of dilution
- Ostwald method
- Ostwald viscometer for determining the viscosity of liquids
- Ostwald's double cone , a color system based on the theory of harmony by Nobel Prize winner Wilhelm Ostwald
- (11844) Ostwald , an asteroid
- Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gymnasium (WOG) in Leipzig
- Wilhelm-Ostwald-Park on the outskirts of Großbothen
Ostwald is the family name of the following people:
- Andreas Ostwald (* 1964), German designer and university professor
- David Ostwald * (1955/56), American jazz musician
- Dietmar Ostwald (* 1953), German writer
- Elia Ostwald (* 1988), German ice hockey player
- Eugen Ostwald (1851–1932), German-Baltic forest scientist in Riga
- Hans Ostwald (1873–1940), German journalist, narrator and cultural historian
- Herbert Ostwald (* 1960), German journalist and documentary filmmaker
- John Hans Ostwald (1913–1973), Austrian-American architect
- Joseph Ostwald (1879–1950), German architect
- Jürgen Ostwald (* around 1948), German art historian
- Karl Wilhelm Ostwald (1859–1936; from 1913: Wilhelm von Oswald), German entrepreneur and coal and steel industrialist, see Wilhelm von Oswald, 1859
- Karl-Wilhelm Ostwald (engineer) (1909–1973), German engineer, motorway expert in Heppenheim
- Käthe Ostwald (1899–1985), German philologist and English scholar, see Käthe Kluth
- Klaus Ostwald (* 1958), German ski jumper
- Marco Ostwald (* 1989), German television presenter and sports journalist
- Martin Ostwald (1922–2010), German classical philologist
- Peter F. Ostwald (1928–1996), American psychiatrist
- Ray Ostwald (* 1971), American conductor, composer and violinist
- Richard Ostwald (1882–1951), German politician (SPD)
- Ronny Ostwald (* 1974), German sprinter
- Rosemarie Ostwald (1915–1984), Austrian-American biochemist and nutritionist
- Thomas Ostwald (* 1949), German author and publisher
- Walter Ostwald (1886–1958), chemist, son of Wilhelm Ostwald
- Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), German-Baltic chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Wolfgang Ostwald (1883–1943), chemist, son of Wilhelm Ostwald
See also:
- Richard Oswald (1880–1963), who was sometimes incorrectly spelled Ostwald
