In 1913 Alfred Werner’s (1866–1919) controversial theory of coordination chemistry brought him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Unfortunately, after his death there was no clear successor at the Universitt Zrich to continue his back-breaking style of investigations in this field with the same excitement and vision. At the time of Werner’s unexpected death Gerold Karl Schwarzenbach (1904–1978) was barely fifteen years of age and still contemplating how he could make a living in his small conservative village. The fate of this young man’s adventure to study chemistry with the hope of working in the silk-dyeing factory where his father was foreman would change his life forever. He not only developed later the enthusiasm and diverse skills to excel in chemistry, but he contributed new concepts to bring inorganic chemistry to a new level.
Craig et al. (Mon,) studied this question.