- Paul Walden
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name = Paul Walden
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caption = Paul Walden
birth_date = birth date|1863|7|26
birth_place = Rozulas «Pīpēni»,Latvia
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nationality =Germany
death_date = death date and age|1957|1|22|1863|7|26
death_place =Gammertingen ,Germany
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work_institution =University of Rostock
alma_mater =Riga Polytechnicum
University of Leipzig
University of Odessa
doctoral_advisor =Wilhelm Ostwald
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known_for =Walden inversion
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footnotes =Paul Walden ( _lv. Pauls Valdens; 1863 – 1957) was a Latvian-German
chemist . He was born in the parish ofRozula nearCēsis inLatvia and initially studied at theRiga Polytechnicum and St. Petersburg before receiving his doctorate at theUniversity of Leipzig in 1891 withWilhelm Ostwald .Walden left Latvia after the Russian Revolution and accepted positions in
Germany . TheWalden inversion is named after him. Walden also inventedethylammonium nitrate Ref|1 as the first example of anionic liquid . Walden is also known for his 1949 book, "History of Chemistry", an excellent synthesis of contemporary historical research in the field.References
# P. Walden, Bull Acad. Imper. Sci. (St Petersburg), 1914, 1800
# cite journal
author = A. G. Morachevskii
title = Academician Pavel Ivanovich Walden (on 140th Anniversary of His Birthday)
journal = Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry
issue = 7
volume = 76
year = 2003
doi = 10.1023/A:1026399420965
pages = 1186–1190
# cite journal
author = Paul Walden
title = Aus den Erinnerungen eines alten chemischen Zeitgenossen
journal = Naturwissenschaften
issue = 4
volume = 37
year = 1950
doi = 10.1007/BF00631950
pages = 73–81
# cite journal
author = Georg Lockemann
title = Paul von Walden, dem Nestor der Chemie, zum 90. Geburtstage am 26. Juli 1953
journal = Naturwissenschaften
issue = 14
volume = 40
year = 1953
doi = 10.1007/BF00589294
pages = 373–374
# cite journal
author = P. Günther
title = Paul Walden zum 70. Geburtstag
journal = Angewandte Chemie
issue = 30
volume = 46
year = 1933
doi = 10.1002/ange.19330463002
pages = 497–498
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