Hans Fischer
| Hans Fischer | |
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| Born |
27 July 1881 Höchst on Main, Germany |
| Died | 31 March 1945 (aged 63) Munich, Germany Suicide |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions |
University of Innsbruck, University of Vienna, Technical University of Munich |
| Alma mater |
University of Lausanne, University of Marburg |
| Doctoral advisor | Emil Fischer |
| Doctoral students | |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1930) Davy Medal (1937) |
Hans Fischer (27 July 1881 – 31 March 1945) was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."
Fischer was born in Höchst on Main, now a city district of Frankfurt. His parents were Dr. Eugen Fischer, Director of the firm of Kalle & Co, Wiesbaden, and Privatdozent at the Technical High School, Stuttgart, and Anna Herdegen. He went to a primary school in Stuttgart, and later to the "Humanistisches Gymnasium" in Wiesbaden, matriculating in 1899. He read chemistry and medicine, first at the University of Lausanne and then at Marburg. He graduated in 1904, and in 1908 he qualified for his M.D.
He worked first at a Medical Clinic in Munich and then at the First Berlin Chemical Institute under Emil Fischer. He returned to Munich in 1911 and qualified as lecturer on internal medicine one year later. In 1913 he became a lecturer in physiology at the Physiological Institute in Munich. In 1916 he became Professor of Medical Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck and from there he went to the University of Vienna in 1918.
From 1921 until his death he held the position of Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich.
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