Werner as First Name

Werner Arber            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss
Werner Arber: Swiss microbiologist and geneticist. Along with American researchers Hamilton Smith and Daniel Nathans, Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of restriction endonucleases.

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Werner as Last Name

Jan Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish
Jan Werner: (born 25 July 1946) was a Polish athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.

Alfred Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss
Alfred Werner: a Swiss chemist who was 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.

Ilse Werner            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch
Ilse Werner: was an actress and singer. She was born to a Dutch father and a German mother and was Dutch citizen by birth. Although she had her greatest successes in Germany (mainly during the time of the Third Reich), she did not assume German citizenship until 1955.Arriving in Frankfurt, Germany at the age of 10, Werner later made her name at the legendary UFA Studios near Berlin. She starred in the popular wartime films "Die schwedische Nachtigall" (The Swedish Nightingale) and "Wir machen Musik" (We're Making Music).