Alfred Werner(1866)

Chemistry

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.

Switzerland
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Major Awards
4
Publications
3
Citations
1
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Awards & Recognition

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

University of Zurich
1913

Education

ETH Zurich
University of Zurich

Doctoral Advisor

Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch

Academy Memberships

Russian Academy of Sciences

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