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Alfred Werner
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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