The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902
Awarded on: 1902-11-11
"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses"
Affiliations:
- Berlin University – Berlin, Germany
Hermann Emil Fischer
Born: 1852-10-09 in Euskirchen, Prussia (now Germany)
Gender: male
Field: German chemist (1852–1919)
Biography
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms. He also hypothesized lock and key mechanism of enzyme action. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his life simply as Emil Fischer.