Hermann Emil Fischer
Chemist, Academic
1852 – 1919
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Who was Hermann Emil Fischer?
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He also discovered the Fischer esterification. He developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his life simply as Emil Fischer.
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- Born
- Oct 9, 1852
Euskirchen - Also known as
- Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
- Emil Hermann Fischer
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Bonn
- University of Strasbourg
- Employment
- University of Würzburg
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Lived in
- Germany
- Erlangen
- Died
- Jul 15, 1919
Berlin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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