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.

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• Biography at Nobelprize.org http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1913/werner-bio.html