Alfred Werner

Alfred Werner (December 12, 1866 - November 15, 1919) was a German Nobel prize-winning chemist. 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 also discovered hexol.

External link

• Biography at Nobelprize.org
• his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry.
• Alfred Werner ? Biography.