Ostwald started his career as an independent unpaid investigator at the University of Dorpat in 1875. He worked in the laboratory with Johann Lemberg, a German Chemist. Lemberg taught Ostwald everything he knew about measurements of equilibria and chemical reaction rates.
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Wilhelm look how fast this reaction is!
As he continued to work with Johann, he became deeply interested in chemical equilibria and the rate of the reactions
He soon conducted his own study, and made his own table seeing what the effects of temperature were as well as the effects of acids and bases
This was an extremely important discovery because this was a question that several theoretical chemists were facing during this time. Only Ostwald was able to come up with a valid explanation
Ostwald found that the concentration of acid or the concentration of base in a solution of certain chemical reactants can have a strong influence of the rate of chemical processes, which is now known as catalysis