Alfred Werner's Death

The chemist Alfred Werner died at the age of 52. Here is all you want to know, and more!

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A Swiss chemist who developed the basis for modern coordination chemistry. He was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the octahedral configuration of transition metal complexes.

He was raised as a Roman Catholic.

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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.

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With the assistance of electrical conductivity, we were able to trace by measurements the process of intercalation in a large number of cases and, consequently, to establish experimental foundations for the evaluation of the formation of such intercalation compounds.

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I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.