Swiss chemist Nobel laureate (1866-1919)
Alfred Werner was a Swiss chemist who won the Nobel Prize and made groundbreaking discoveries about how atoms bond together in complex molecules, particularly in coordination chemistry. His work laid the foundation for understanding the structure of many important compounds and remains central to modern chemistry.
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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.
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