Alfred Werner (1866-1919) was a Swiss chemist who studied and later taught at ETH Zurich before becoming a professor at the University of Zurich. He won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for proposing the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes, work that laid the basis for modern coordination chemistry, and was the first inorganic chemist to receive the prize.
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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.
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