Born: 12-Dec-1866
Birthplace: Mülhausen, Alsace, Germany
Died: 15-Nov-1919
Location of death: Zürich, Switzerland
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Chemist

Nationality: Switzerland
Executive summary: Coordination Theory

Military service: German Army (1885-86 in Karlsruhe)

Father: J. A. Werner (factory foreman)
Mother: Jeanne Tesche
Wife: Emma Giesker (m. 1894, one son, one daughter)
Son: Alfred
Daughter: Charlotte

    University: Technical High School, Karlsruhe (attended 1886)
    University: Technical High School, Zürich (1889)
    University: PhD, University of Zürich (1890)
    Scholar: Collège de France
    Professor: University of Zürich (1893-1919)

    Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1913

Author of books:
Neuere Anschauungen auf dem Gebiete der anorganischen Chemie (1904, chemistry)
Lehrbuch der Stereochemie (1904, chemistry)

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