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Alfred Werner

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Alfred Werner

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Swiss chemist Nobel laureate (1866-1919)

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Alfred Werner was a German orchestra based in Germany. He was recognized in the Nobel Chemistry collection and the Nobel Laureates collection, with a count of one associated with the Nobel Prize.

The author Alfred Werner has 60 works listed, including *Sie kämpften und starben für kommendes Recht*, *Vers une cité mondiale*, *Modigliani/Utrillo/ Soutine*, *German Painting*, and *Chagall*. Crossref lists five works for this name.

Alfred Werner was born on 1866-12-12 and died on 1919-11-15. On Last.fm, the name Alfred Werner has five listeners and seven playcounts.

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Person · Open Library

Works
60

Top works

  • Sie kämpften und starben für kommendes Recht
  • Vers une cité mondiale
  • Modigliani/Utrillo/ Soutine
  • German Painting
  • Chagall

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
7

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1913

    in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry

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Encyclopedic overview

Alfred Werner (12 December 1866 – 15 November 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913 for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes. Werner developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry. He was the first inorganic chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and the only one prior to 1973.

Biography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alfred Werner” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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