His accomplishments included the development of the theory of coordination
compounds This theory, in which Werner proposed revolutionary ideas about
how atoms and molecules are linked together, was formulated in a span of
only three years, from 1890 to 1893 The remainder of his career was spent
gathering the experimental support required to validate his new ideas Werner
became the first Swiss chemist to win the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his work
on the linkage of atoms and the coordination theory