Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.
-- Wilhelm Ostwald
   
Wilhelm Ostwald   Name:
Wilhelm Ostwald
Type:
Scientist
Nationality:
German
Birth:
September 2, 1853
Death:
April 4, 1932
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