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Emil Fischer

1852 - 1919

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Hermann Emil Louis Fischer (German pronunciation: [ˈeːmiːl ˈfɪʃɐ] ; 9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emil Fischer is the 12th most popular chemist (up from 23rd in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Germany (up from 191st in 2019) and the most popular German Chemist.

Emil Fischer is most famous for his work on the purine and pyrimidine bases of DNA.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Emil Fischer ranks 12 out of 602. Before him are Jabir ibn Hayyan, Irène Joliot-Curie, Amedeo Avogadro, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Robert Boyle, and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff. After him are Svante Arrhenius, John Stith Pemberton, Edwin McMillan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Raymond Davis Jr., and August Kekulé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Emil Fischer ranks 6. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, Albert A. Michelson, Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff. After him are William Ramsay, Henri Moissan, Charles Taze Russell, Gojong of Korea, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, and Francisco Tárrega. Among people deceased in 1919, Emil Fischer ranks 4. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Rosa Luxemburg, and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh. After him are Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfred Werner, Gojong of Korea, Karl Liebknecht, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, and Emiliano Zapata.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emil Fischer ranks 80 out of 7,253. Before him are Albertus Magnus (1206), Karl Lagerfeld (1933), Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361), Richard Strauss (1864), Theodor Mommsen (1817), and Helmut Kohl (1930). After him are Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Martin Bormann (1900), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050), Clara Zetkin (1857), and Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Emil Fischer ranks 1. After him are August Kekulé (1829), Adolf Windaus (1876), Ernst Chain (1906), Eduard Buchner (1860), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Hahn (1879), Richard Willstätter (1872), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), and Adolf Butenandt (1903).

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