Alfred Werner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Werner

Swiss chemist (1866-1919)

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1866

Place of Birth: Mulhouse, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 15-Nov-1919

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Switzerland, France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.