A Nobel laureate
Fischer was born in 1852, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902, and died in 1919.
Literature
Emil Fischer
The Fischer projection, Fischer esterification, and the lock-and-key model of enzyme action
Emil Fischer was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902. He developed the Fischer projection, discovered Fischer esterification, and proposed the lock-and-key mechanism of enzyme action.
Worth knowing
The Fischer projection
Fischer developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic method for drawing asymmetric carbon atoms.
The lock-and-key model
He proposed the lock-and-key mechanism of enzyme action.
Fischer esterification
Fischer discovered the process now known as Fischer esterification.
Known as Emil
His full name was Hermann Emil Louis Fischer, but he never used his first given name and was known throughout his life as Emil Fischer.
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Burial place
Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
Hermann Emil Fischer is buried at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery.
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