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Alfred Werner

Nobel Prize-winning chemist who founded the study of coordination compounds

Did you know?He was the first Swiss scientist to receive a Nobel Prize for Chemistry, awarded for his research into molecular structures.

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.

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