CHEMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emil Fischer has received more than 166,720 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Emil Fischer is the 23rd most popular chemist (down from 21st in 2019), the 191st most popular biography from Germany (up from 194th in 2019) and the 4th 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 23 out of 602. Before him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Linus Pauling, Edwin McMillan, Friedrich Wöhler, Paul Karrer, and William Ramsay. After him are Eduard Buchner, Albert Hofmann, Otto Wallach, Humphry Davy, Justus von Liebig, and Casimir Funk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Emil Fischer ranks 7. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, Henri Becquerel, Emperor Meiji, Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Gojong of Korea, and William Ramsay. After him are Albert A. Michelson, Henri Moissan, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Joseph Joffre, Francisco Tárrega, and Charles Taze Russell. Among people deceased in 1919, Emil Fischer ranks 7. Before him are Rosa Luxemburg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, and Gojong of Korea. After him are Karl Liebknecht, Emiliano Zapata, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Carl Larsson, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and Andrew Carnegie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emil Fischer ranks 191 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Frank (1900), Baron d'Holbach (1723), Emmy Noether (1882), Augustus III of Poland (1696), Anne of Cleves (1515), and Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955). After him are Oswald Spengler (1880), Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), Jacob Grimm (1785), Eduard Buchner (1860), Gottlob Frege (1848), and Hermann von Helmholtz (1821).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Emil Fischer ranks 4. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Otto Hahn (1879), and Friedrich Wöhler (1800). After him are Eduard Buchner (1860), Justus von Liebig (1803), Robert Bunsen (1811), Carl Bosch (1874), August Kekulé (1829), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), and Adolf Windaus (1876).

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