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Alfred Werner
Swiss chemist (1866–1919)
For the American coach, physical education professor, and college athletics administrator, see Alfred C. Werner.
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.[2]
Biography
Werner was born in 1866 in Mulhouse, Alsace (which was then part of France, but which was annexed by Germany in 1871). He was raised as Roman Catholic.[3] He was the fourth and last child of Jean-Adam Werner, a foundry worker, and his second wife, Salomé Jeannette Werner, who originated from a wealthy family.[3] He went to Switzerland to study chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute (polytechnikum) in Zurich. Still, since this institute was not empowere
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Timo Werner
German footballer (born 1996)
Timo Werner (German pronunciation:[ˈtiːmoːˈvɛʁnɐ];[2][3] born 6 March 1996) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, on loan from Bundesliga club RB Leipzig, and the Germany national team.
Werner began his senior club career in 2013 playing for VfB Stuttgart, becoming the club's youngest debutant and youngest goalscorer. He signed for RB Leipzig in 2016, aged 20, for a then club record transfer fee of €10 million. With Leipzig, he set the record as the youngest player to reach 150 and 200 appearances in the Bundesliga. Werner also finished as the league's second highest goalscorer in the 2019–20 season. After becoming Leipzig's all-time top goalscorer, Werner departed to Chelsea in 2020 for a reported fee worth €50 million, winning the UEFA Champions League in his first season at the club. He later returned to Leipzig in August 2022 for a reported fee of £25.3 million.
A German international, Werner was a prolific goalscorer at
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Werner Berg was born on 11 April 1904 in Elberfeld, which today is part of the German city of Wuppertal. He was the youngest of four children.
Werner Berg's grandfather Theodor Berg was a merchant and plumber who had founded a business in the city's center. His second son Josef, Werner Berg's father, would have liked to become a secondary school teacher in order to pursue his humanistic interests, but after his older brother's suicide, he was forced to break off his schooling at the Gymnasium and reluctantly begin a practical apprenticeship in the family business he would inherit.
The destiny of his uncle, who had wanted to become a painter but had not been able to realize this aspiration within his restrictive bourgeois surroundings and had been driven to suicide, made a strong impression on the young Werner Berg. The rejection of the «bourgeoisie«, of the «conventions, this ravenous human epidemic» and of all capitalist values, which steered Werner Berg's later life, may well have originated in these formative early impressions.
His mother Clara, née an der Heiden, was the d
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