Emil Fischer was a professor of chemistry for forty years who also served as director of the German chemical industries during World War I. Fischer's research on important organic substances such as sugars, enzymes, and proteins, built the foundation...

Emil Hermann Fischer was born on October 9, 1852 in Euskirchen, Germany. With five older sisters, he was the only son of Laurenz Fischer and Julie Poensgen Fischer. Fischer described his youth as happy in his unfinished autobiography, Aus meinem Leben...

The German chemist Emil Fischer (1852-1919), perhaps the greatest of the organic chemists, is known for his work in the study of pure sugars and proteins. Emil Fischer was born at Euskirchen, Prussia, on Oct. 9, 1852. After studying chemistry at the...

1852-1919 German organic chemist who made significant contributions to our knowledge of the structure of sugars and proteins; awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1902. Fischer was the first to show that naturally occurring sugars existed as...

University of Erlangen (1881-88) University of Würzburg...

Information systems drive modem society. They also drive chemical reactions, especially in biological systems. This was first established in 1894 by the German organic chemist Emil Fischer. He found that enzymes were selective in their action on glucosides. This phenomenon was soon known...

(CANADA) A Seville Pictures release (in Canada) of a Raven West Films Ltd. presentation in association with Meltemi Entertainment, BV Intl. Pictures, Redbus Film Distribution Ltd. and Seville Pictures. Produced by Jacquelyn Rennet, Carl Bessai. Executive producers, Jonathan English, Bjorg Veland, Bessai....