Hans Fischer

See also: Hans Fischerkoesen

Hans Fischer (July 27th 1881 - March 31st 1945) was a German Chimiste specialized in Organic chemistry and prize winner of the Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1930.

Hans Fischer was born close to the Main in Hoechst. His/her father was Eugen Fischer, director of Kalle & Co with Wiesbaden and privatdocent (free teacher) with the technical school of Stuttgart. He carried out his studies in Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, then studied the Chimie and the Médecine with the Université of Lausanne and Marbourg.

He began his career with the medical private clinic from Munich, then at the Institute of chemistry of Berlin under the direction of Emil Fischer, Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1902. He returned to Munich in 1911 and obtained a station in medicine later one year. In 1913, he became lecturer in Physiologie at the Institute of physiology of Munich. In 1916, he became chemistry teacher medical with the Université of Innsbruck to succeed Windaus then with the Université of Vienna in 1918. From 1921 with its death, it occupied the post of professor of organic chemistry at the technical university of Munich.

The scientific research of Fischer has mainly concerned the study of the Pigment S in the Sang and the Bile, and the Chlorophylle of the sheets. It was also interested in chemistry of the Pyrrole from which these pigments derive. It carried out in particular the synthesis of the Bilirubine and the Hémine. It obtained the Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1930 for its research on hemin and chlorophyl. He was also prize winner of the Davy Médaille in 1937.

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