Alfred Werner

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Gender	Male
Death	105 years ago
Date of birth	December 12,1866
Zodiac sign	Sagittarius
Born	Mulhouse
	France
Date of died	November 15,1919
Field	Inorganic chemistry
Job	Chemist
Education	ETH Zürich
	University of Zurich
Current partner	Emma Werner
Known for	Configuration of transition metal complexes
Books	New Ideas on Inorganic Chemistry
	Michael Schreck Sculpture
	Modigliani
	Classics in Coordination Chemistry: The Selected Papers of Alfred Werner
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Died	New York
	New York
	United States
	Zurich
	Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Date of Reg.	2019-03-09 00:52:42
Date of Upd.	2023-07-30 10:24:42
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Alfred Werner Life story

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.