Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
Alfred Wernerwas 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...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth12 December 1866
CountrySwitzerland
Alfred Werner quotes about
atoms hypothesis putting work
I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.
affinity atoms bind chemical clearly defined elementary groups possess seemingly sufficient theory
Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds.