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Ernst Otto Fischer

1918 - 2007

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Ernst Otto Fischer (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁnst ˌɔto ˈfɪʃɐ] ; 10 November 1918 – 23 July 2007) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Otto Fischer is the 89th most popular chemist (up from 119th in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Germany (up from 660th in 2019) and the 21st most popular German Chemist.

Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist and Nobel Prize winner. He is most famous for the discovery of the Fischer-Tropsch process, which is a chemical process that converts coal into liquid fuel.

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Among chemists, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 89 out of 602. Before him are Robert S. Mulliken, Friedrich Bergius, Hans Fischer, James B. Sumner, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, and J. D. Bernal. After him are Thomas Midgley Jr., Theodor Svedberg, Valery Legasov, M. Stanley Whittingham, Edward Adelbert Doisy, and Heinrich Otto Wieland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 17. Before him are Rita Hayworth, Gertrude B. Elion, Robert Wadlow, Helmut Schmidt, Frederick Sanger, and Alberto Ascari. After him are Kai Siegbahn, Katherine Johnson, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Takashi Kasahara, Jens Christian Skou, and Jørn Utzon. Among people deceased in 2007, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 13. Before him are Kurt Waldheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ève Curie, Jean Baudrillard, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Carlo Ponti. After him are Kai Siegbahn, Maurice Béjart, Marcel Marceau, Alan Ball Jr., Benazir Bhutto, and Sidney Sheldon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 367 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881), Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662), Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868), Ludwig Beck (1880), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), and August von Mackensen (1849). After him are Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Thomas Müntzer (1489), Hermann Müller (1876), Adolf Dassler (1900), Sophie Scholl (1921), and Wilhelm Grimm (1786).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Ernst Otto Fischer ranks 21. Before him are Justus von Liebig (1803), Karl Ziegler (1898), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Carl Bosch (1874), and Hans Fischer (1881). After him are Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877), Manfred Eigen (1927), Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780), Gerhard Ertl (1936), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), and Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604).

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