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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 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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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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Instance of
human
Given name
Martin
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Mulhouse
Place of death
Zurich
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
University of Zurich
Employer
University of Zurich
Languages spoken
German
Religion
Catholicism
Award
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Doctoral advisor
Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch
Field of work
chemistry
Image
(UAZ) AB.1.1093 Werner.tif
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Alfred Werner
date of death
1919-11-15
date of birth
1866-12-12
name in native language
Alfred Werner
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
writing language
French
member of
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
Zurich
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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.

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