Hans Fischer
German chemist (1881–1945)
Who was Hans Fischer?
Hans Fischer (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈfɪʃɐ] ; 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 on July 27, 1881, in Höchst, now a city district of Frankfurt located in Germany. His parents were Dr. Eugen Fischer, Director of the firm of Kalle & Co., Wiesbaden, and Privatdozent at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, and Anna Herdegen was his mother. 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 University. He graduated in 1904 and obtained his chemistry degree.
Two years later in 1906, he licensed for medicine, and in 1908, he qualified for his M.D. with which he applied to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Historical significance
He worked first at a Medical Clinic in Munich and then at the First Berlin Chemical Institute under Emil Fischer. Hans Fischer 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.