Nobel prize winners Werner

For his work on coordination chemistry and stereochemistry, Werner became the fourteenth Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and the first Swiss chemist to be so honored. Werner s work is even more remarkable when one realizes that his ideas preceded any real understanding of the nature of covalent bonds by many years. ... 

A few years later, Werner, 1913 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, postulated that metal ions in solution are surrounded by a fixed number of neighboring negative ions or neutral molecules, arranged in a certain way, e.g. at the comers of an octahedron if there are six of them ... 

In 1937 Werner Heisenberg was at the height of his powers. He was nominated professor and got married. However, just after returning from his honeymoon, the rector of the university called him, saying that there was a problem. In the SS weekly an article by Prof. Johannes Stark (a Nobel Prize winner and faithful Nazi) was about to appear claiming that Professor Heisenberg is not such a good patriot as he pretends, because he socialized in the past with Jewish physicists... 

Our present understanding of the nature of metal complexes is due to the ingenious insight of Alfred Werner, professor of chemistry in Zurich and winner of a Nobel prize in 1913. In 1893, at age 26, he proposed what is now commonly referred to as Werner s coordination theory . His theory has been... 

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