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Alfred Werner

1866 - 1919

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Werner is the 43rd most popular chemist (up from 46th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from France (up from 491st in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Chemist.

Alfred Werner is most famous for his discovery of the chemical composition of chlorophyll.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Alfred Werner ranks 43 out of 602. Before him are F. Sherwood Rowland, Linus Pauling, Paul Karrer, Tadeusz Reichstein, Humphry Davy, and Richard Adolf Zsigmondy. After him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Adolf von Baeyer, Fritz Pregl, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Victor Grignard, and Arthur Harden.

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Among people born in 1866, Alfred Werner ranks 8. Before him are Wassily Kandinsky, Romain Rolland, Sun Yat-sen, Erik Satie, George Gurdjieff, and Thomas Hunt Morgan. After him are Charles Nicolle, Benedetto Croce, Jacinto Benavente, Giovanni Agnelli, Beatrix Potter, and Hans von Seeckt. Among people deceased in 1919, Alfred Werner ranks 8. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Emil Fischer, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, and Karl Adolph Gjellerup. After him are Gojong of Korea, Karl Liebknecht, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Emiliano Zapata, Ruggero Leoncavallo, and Georg von Hertling.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Werner ranks 301 out of 6,770. Before him are Georges Méliès (1861), Carlo Buonaparte (1746), François Quesnay (1694), Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), Charles Fourier (1772), and Ferdinand Foch (1851). After him are Urbain Le Verrier (1811), Claude Lorrain (1600), Oscar I of Sweden (1799), Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845), Victor Grignard (1871), and Gilles de Rais (1405).

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Among CHEMISTS In France

Among chemists born in France, Alfred Werner ranks 6. Before him are Louis Pasteur (1822), Antoine Lavoisier (1743), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), and Henri Moissan (1852). After him are Victor Grignard (1871), Henry Louis Le Chatelier (1850), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Paul Sabatier (1854), Joseph Black (1728), and Jacques Monod (1910).

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