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 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 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...

The son of a successful businessman, Emil Fischer, at the urging of his father, reluctantly joined the family firm when he left high school. But the young man yearned to be a mathematician or physicist and, after a few years, his father gave in and...

The son of a successful businessman, Emil Fischer, at the urging of his father, reluctantly joined the family firm when he left high school. But the young man yearned to be a mathematician or physicist and, after a few years, his father gave in and...