Emil Hermann Fischer (1852–1919) was a chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902 “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses,” according to the Nobel Prize website. Fischer is also known for having developed the Fischer projection, a way to draw two-dimensional representations of structures of organic molecules.
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Emil Hermann Fischer (1852–1919) was a chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902.
12/25/2011
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