1852 - 1919
Hermann Emil Louis Fischer FRS FRSE FCS (German pronunciation: [ˈeːmiːl ˈfɪʃɐ] (listen); 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Fischer has received more than 106,707 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Emil Fischer is the 23rd most popular chemist (down from 21st in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Germany (down from 170th in 2019) and the 5th 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, Emil Fischer ranks 23 out of 510. Before him are Wilhelm Ostwald, Otto Hahn, Humphry Davy, Julius Lothar Meyer, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, and Albert Hofmann. After him are Justus von Liebig, Valery Legasov, William Ramsay, Eduard Buchner, Edwin McMillan, and Walther Nernst.
1853 - 1932
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 17
1879 - 1968
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 18
1778 - 1829
HPI: 78.63
Rank: 19
1830 - 1895
HPI: 78.61
Rank: 20
1778 - 1850
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 21
1906 - 2008
HPI: 78.19
Rank: 22
1852 - 1919
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 23
1803 - 1873
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 24
1936 - 1988
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 25
1852 - 1916
HPI: 77.37
Rank: 26
1860 - 1917
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 27
1907 - 1991
HPI: 76.30
Rank: 28
1864 - 1941
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 29
Among people born in 1852, Emil Fischer ranks 5. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff. After him are William Ramsay, Gojong of Korea, Albert A. Michelson, Henri Moissan, Francisco Tárrega, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and Joseph Joffre. Among people deceased in 1919, Emil Fischer ranks 8. Before him are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Liebknecht, Emiliano Zapata, and Karl Adolph Gjellerup. After him are Andrew Carnegie, Ruggero Leoncavallo, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Gojong of Korea, William Crookes, and Carl Larsson.
1852 - 1926
HPI: 87.73
Rank: 1
1852 - 1908
HPI: 84.09
Rank: 2
1852 - 1912
HPI: 82.77
Rank: 3
1852 - 1911
HPI: 79.52
Rank: 4
1852 - 1919
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 5
1852 - 1916
HPI: 77.37
Rank: 6
1852 - 1919
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 7
1852 - 1931
HPI: 76.15
Rank: 8
1852 - 1907
HPI: 75.91
Rank: 9
1852 - 1909
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 10
1852 - 1934
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 11
1852 - 1931
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 12
1841 - 1919
HPI: 85.43
Rank: 2
1858 - 1919
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 3
1834 - 1919
HPI: 81.24
Rank: 4
1871 - 1919
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 5
1879 - 1919
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 6
1857 - 1919
HPI: 78.09
Rank: 7
1852 - 1919
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 8
1835 - 1919
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 9
1857 - 1919
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 10
1842 - 1919
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 11
1852 - 1919
HPI: 76.47
Rank: 12
1832 - 1919
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 13
1853 - 1919
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 14
Among people born in Germany, Emil Fischer ranks 191 out of 5,289. Before him are Karl Liebknecht (1871), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (1652), Otto von Guericke (1602), and Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805). After him are Frederick William II of Prussia (1744), Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), Hans Memling (1435), Baron d'Holbach (1723), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), and Ilse Koch (1906).
1871 - 1919
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 185
1880 - 1938
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 186
1776 - 1841
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 187
1652 - 1722
HPI: 78.18
Rank: 188
1602 - 1686
HPI: 78.16
Rank: 189
1805 - 1872
HPI: 78.09
Rank: 190
1852 - 1919
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 191
1744 - 1797
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 192
1282 - 1347
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 193
1435 - 1494
HPI: 78.01
Rank: 194
1723 - 1789
HPI: 77.99
Rank: 195
1833 - 1911
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 196
1906 - 1967
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 197
Among chemists born in Germany, Emil Fischer ranks 5. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Otto Hahn (1879), and Julius Lothar Meyer (1830). After him are Justus von Liebig (1803), Eduard Buchner (1860), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), August Kekulé (1829), Carl Bosch (1874), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), and Robert Bunsen (1811).
1742 - 1786
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 1
1800 - 1882
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 2
1879 - 1968
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 3
1830 - 1895
HPI: 78.61
Rank: 4
1852 - 1919
HPI: 78.06
Rank: 5
1803 - 1873
HPI: 77.91
Rank: 6
1860 - 1917
HPI: 77.01
Rank: 7
1835 - 1917
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 8
1829 - 1896
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 9
1874 - 1940
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 10
1900 - 1981
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 11
1811 - 1899
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 12