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Fischer, Emil, 1852-1919

LC control no.n 86858871
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Personal name headingFischer, Emil, 1852-1919
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Variant(s)Fisher, Ėmilʹ, 1852-1919
Fischer, Hermann Emil Louis, 1852-1919
Associated countryGermany
Birth date18521009
Death date19190715
Place of birthEuskirchen (Germany)
Field of activityChemistry
Profession or occupationChemists Scientists
Found inLCCN 06-34398: His Anleitung zur darstellung organischer präparate, 1905 (hdg.: Fischer, Emil, 1852-1919; usage: Emil Fischer)
LC data base, 10-15-86 (hdg.: Fischer, Emil, 1852-1919; usage Ėmilʹ Fisher)
Emil Fischer's "From my life", 2022, ©2022: title page (Emil Fischer) page vii (one of the greatest chemist of all times who carried out fundamentally important work on sugars, purines, and peptides, his proof of the stereochemistry of glucose remains one of the great intellectual achievements of science; received the Nobel Prize in 1902)
Wikipedia WWW site, Sept. 7, 2022: (Emil Fischer, Hermann Emil Louis Fischer, 9 October 1852 to 15 July 1919, was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, born in Euskirchen, near Cologne, never used his first given name, was known throughout his life simply as Emil Fischer; discovered the Fischer esterification, developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms, also hypothesized lock and key mechanism of enzyme action)
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