Alfred Werner

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1913

On the Constitution and Configuration of Higher-Order Compounds

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From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1901-1921, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1966

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