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THIS stately volume is a fitting tribute to an eminent man who has done much to advance the progress of modern chemistry. The triumvirate, van 't Hoff, Arrhenius and Ostwald, the Dutchman, the Swede and the Russo-German, had a hard battle before their doctrines were accepted by physicists and by chemists. The communications made in the first volume of Ostwald's Zeitschrift by van 't Hoff (p. 481) on the rôle of osmotic pressure in the analogy between liquids and gases, and by Arrhenius (p. 631) on the dissociation of substances dissolved in water, brought together the three friends in a manner which we now recognise as almost dramatic. Of Ostwald's 147 pupils, 34 of whom are now professors in universities all over the world, 34 have contributed memoirs to the “Jubel-band” in honour of their teacher.
Jubelband—Wilhelm Ostwald.
Gewidmet zur Feier seiner vor fünfundzwanzig Jahren erfolgter Doktorpromotion von seinen Schülern, mit einer Einleitung von J. H. van 't Hoff. Pp. xxxi + 679. (Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, Band 46.)
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Jubelband—Wilhelm Ostwald . Nature 69, 387–388 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069387a0
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