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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...
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    octahedral. The concept of octahedral coordination geometry was developed by Alfred Werner to explain the stoichiometries and isomerism in coordination compounds...
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    different salts have been described. The complex was first described by Alfred Werner who isolated this salt as yellow-gold needle-like crystals. The compound...
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    Prussian blue and copper vitriol. The key breakthrough occurred when Alfred Werner reconciled formulas and isomers. He showed, among other things, that...
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    which is considered an archetypal "Werner complex", named after the pioneer of coordination chemistry, Alfred Werner. The cation itself is a metal ammine...
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    Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom...
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    valencies of the atoms involved apparently became satisfied. In 1893, Alfred Werner showed that the number of atoms or groups associated with a central...
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    praised her “untrammelled imagination”, something the art historian Alfred Werner attributed to her own cultural marginality as part of a Jewish community...
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  • 1921 Léon Bourgeois, Peace, 1920 Romain Rolland, Literature, 1915 Alfred Werner*, Chemistry, 1913 Charles Richet, Physiology or Medicine, 1913 Alexis...
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    B0007DNIKO Odilon Redon and Alfred Werner, The Graphic Works of Odilon Redon, Dover, 1969, ISBN 0-486-21996-8 Odilon Redon and Alfred Werner, The Graphic Works...
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