!!!Wegscheider, Rudolf

Wegscheider, Rudolf, b. Nagybecskerek, Yugoslavia (then 
Zrenjanin), Oct. 18, 1859, d. Vienna, Jan. 8, 1935. 
Chemist, pioneer of physical chemistry in Austria; 1902-1931 
university professor in Vienna, managed to obtain a new building for 
the Institute of Chemistry; 1904-1929 President of the Austrian 
Chemistry Association. Developed the theory of the chemical rate of 
reaction.

!Works
Ueber Derivate und Constitution der Opiansaeure und 
Hemipinsaeure, 1882; Ueber die Dissociation der Gase, 1899; Ueber die 
allgemeine Form der Gesetze der chemischen Kinetik homogener Systeme, 
1900; Ueber radioaktive Substanzen, 1905; Zur Kinetik der Reaktionen 
mit Elektrolyten, 1917.

!Literature
R. W., Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag, 1929.


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