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Werner
Werner
Werner
Werner
Werner was born on December 12, 1866, in Mülhouse,
a small community in the French province of Alsace His study of chemistry began in Karlsruhe (Germany)
and continued in Zurich (Switzerland), where in his
doctoral thesis in 1890, he explained the difference in
properties of certain nitrogen containing organic
substances on the basis of isomerism He extended vant
Hoff’s theory of tetrahedral carbon atom and modified
it for nitrogen Werner showed optical and electrical differences between
complex compounds based on physical measurements