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Fischer, Edmond H

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Personal name headingFischer, Edmond H.
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Variant(s)Fischer E. H. (Edmond H.)
Associated placeGeneva (Switzerland)
LocatedSeattle (Wash.)
Birth date1920-04-06
Death date2021-08-27
Place of birthShanghai (China)
Place of deathSeattle (Wash.)
Field of activityBiochemistry
AffiliationUniversité de Genève University of Washington. School of Medicine
Profession or occupationBiochemists
Found inLa purification et l'isolement de l'[alpha]-amylase de pancréas, 1947: t.p. (Edmond H. Fischer; thèse présentée a la Faculté des sciences de l'Université de Genève pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès sciences chimiques)
Nobelprize.org, viewed May 14, 2008 (Edmond H. Fischer, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1992; b. Apr 6, 1920)
LC in OCLC, May 14, 2008 (hdg.: Fischer, Edmond H.; usage E.H. Fischer)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Sept. 1, 2021 (in obituary dated "yesterday": Edmond Fischer; Edmond H. Fischer, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist whose work with a colleague on cellular enzymes led to major advances in the treatment of disease, died Aug. 27 at his home in Seattle. He was 101. The University of Washington School of Medicine, with which he had been affiliated for 68 years, announced his death. Dr. Fischer, who was born in Shanghai and spent much of his youth in Switzerland, settled in Seattle in 1953. Edmond Henri Fischer was born April 6, 1920, in Shanghai. At the University of Geneva, Dr. Fischer received degrees in biology and chemistry, followed by a doctorate in chemistry in 1947)