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Alfred Werner

Alfred Werner
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Alfred Werner 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.

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  1. Alfred Werner (this page)December 12, 1866 – November 15, 1919
  2. Antonia MauryMarch 21, 1866 – January 1952
  3. Charles NicolleSeptember 21, 1866 – February 28, 1936
  4. Joel Hastings MetcalfJanuary 4, 1866 – February 23, 1925
  5. Kazimierz TwardowskiOctober 20, 1866 – February 11, 1938
  6. Thomas Hunt MorganSeptember 25, 1866 – December 4, 1945

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