Hermann Fischer
Hermann Fischer
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902
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Name: Hermann Emil Fischer
Birth: 9 October 1852, Euskirchen, Prussia (now Germany)
Death: 15 July 1919, Berlin, Germany
Affiliation: Berlin University, Berlin, Germany
Award: “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses.”
Portion of Cash: 1/1
Sugar, purine syntheses. Produced phenylhydrazine. Artificial sugars. Purines from caffeine.
Businessman father, “Emil too stupid to be business man; better be a student.” Sent him to study chemistry.
“Sciences aren’t abstract constructions, but result of human endeavor; they are connected with personalities and fates of dedicated researchers who developed them.”
Eponyms
- Emil Fischer Medal – When Fischer died in 1919, the Emil Fischer Memorial Medal was instituted by the German Chemical Society.
- Fischer indole synthesis
- Fischer projection
- Fischer oxazole synthesis
- Fischer peptide synthesis
- Fischer phenylhydrazine and oxazone reaction
- Fischer reduction
- Fischer–Speier esterification
- Fischer glycosidation
- Emil Fischer Award
- Emil Fischer Center