Walter Ostwald
Walter Ostwald , actually Walter Karl Wilhelm Ostwald (born May 8, jul. / 20th May 1886 greg. In Riga , † 12 July 1958 in Freiburg ) was a Baltic German chemist and science writer .
Live and act
Walter Ostwald is a son of the chemist and Nobel Prize winner Wilhelm Ostwald and the younger brother of the chemist Wolfgang Ostwald . Born in Riga in 1886, Ostwald grew up in Leipzig. From 1904 he studied chemistry in Leipzig and from 1907 with the Nobel Prize winner William Ramsay in London. During this time he translated Noyes' short textbook on organic chemistry into German.
From 1906 to 1914 he was the editor of the magazine Der Motorfahrer , the official gazette of the ADAC .
In 1922 Ostwald was head of Hansa-Lloyd in Bremen, later head of the scientific and technical department of the Benzol Association . The there in 1924 developed gasoline benzene mixture , a gasoline fuel with a mixture ratio "of 6 parts of gasoline and 4 parts of benzene ," Ostwald was part of a contest to name BV Aral as benzene to the chemical group of AR omaten and gasoline to the AL iphaten heard.
Walter Ostwald was one of the first scientists to recognize the problem of car exhaust gases and, probably inspired by his father's ideas, carried out pioneering work on the detoxification of exhaust gases with catalytic converters as early as 1909 . As early as 1910 he published his ideas in the journal Autler-Chemie. Ostwald already points out possible problems in this publication: "[It] is to be feared that [the catalyst] will soon be rendered unusable by the nitrous and sulphurous acid gases, which are inevitable companions of the exhaust gases."
From 1927 he worked as a science journalist, while also working as a freelancer for IG Farben . He was involved in the development of Motalin , the petrol marketed by Deutsche Gasolin AG and made into a "compression-resistant fuel" by adding iron pentacarbonyl , as well as in that of Glysantin .
Shortly before his death in 1958, his work Rudolf Diesel and Motorized Combustion was published in 1956 .
Fonts
- William A. Noyes: Short Textbook of Organic Chemistry. 1907.
- Motyl and Motaline. Auto-Technik 15, 1926.
- Development of fuels in Germany from 1923 until today. Motor 25, 1937.
- Rudolf Diesel and engine combustion. Oldenbourg. Munich 1956.
literature
- Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoss: Ostwald, Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 633 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Heribert Offermanns : The other Ostwald, Nachrichten aus der Chemie, Volume 57, 2009, pp. 1201-1202
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Ostwald in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walter Ostwald (1886-1958) ( Memento from March 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Walter Ostwald. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of Riga Cathedral (Latvian: Rīgas Doms)
- ↑ 1924 - The Aral brand is born ( Memento of August 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Heribert Offermanns : Der Andere Ostwald , Nachrichten aus der Chemie 57 , 2009, 1201–1202.
- ^ Walter Ostwald, Autler-Chemie, Autotechnische Bibliothek Volume 39, Chapter 3, Berlin, 1910.
- ↑ Street Altas with Motalin advertising, ca.1932 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ostwald, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ostwald, Walter Karl Wilhelm (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic chemist and science journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Riga |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1958 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |