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Alfred Werner
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Alfred Werner

Scientist · born December 12, 1866 · died 1919

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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.

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  1. ~47Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1913

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