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Alfred Werner
1866 – 1919 · aged 53
Swiss chemist Nobel laureate (1866-1919)
- Born
- 12 Dec 1866 · Mulhouse
- Died
- 15 Nov 1919 · Zurich
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- 12 Dec 1866BornBorn in Mulhouse
- 1911AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- 1913AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 15 Nov 1919DiedDied in Zurich
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Major world events during their lifetime (1866 – 1919).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
Biography
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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