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    Ernst Otto Fischer

    German chemist (1918–2007)

    Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry. Wikipedia

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    Ernst Otto Fischer (born Nov. 10, 1918, Munich, Ger.—died July 23, 2007, Munich) was a German theoretical chemist and educator who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973 for his identification of a completely new way in which metals and organic substances can combine. He shared the prize with Geoffrey Wilkinson of Great Britain.. Fischer served in the German army before and during ...
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  3. nobelprize.org

    Translation from the German text. I was born in Solln, near Munich, on 10 November 1918 as the third child of the Professor of Physics at the Technical College of Munich, Dr. Karl T. Fischer (died 1953), and his wife, Valentine, née Danzer (died 1935). After completing four years at elementary school I went on to grammar school in 1929, from which I graduated in 1937 with my Abitur.
  4. nobelprize.org

    In 1952 Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson, working independently of one another, revealed a new type of chemical compound consisting of a carbon compound and a metallic atom. In these sandwich structures, which do not exist in nature, two ring-shaped carbon compounds enclose a metallic atom on each side.
  5. thefamouspeople.com

    Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist and educator who was jointly awarded the 'Nobel Prize in Chemistry' in 1973 along with English chemist Geoffrey Wilkinson for their independent but related leading-edge work in metallocenes and other aspects in the field of organometallic chemistry. This pioneering work of Fischer included identifying an entirely new technique of combining organic ...
  6. biographs.org

    Biography of Ernst Otto Fischer Ernst Otto Fischer, a German chemist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973, was born in Soln, a suburb of Munich. He was the youngest of three children of Karl Tobias Fischer, a professor at the Physical Institute of the Munich Technical University, and Valentina Fischer (née Dancer). Fischer received his education first at a local school, then ...
  7. nobel-centre.com

    Ernst Otto Fischer was born in Solln, a southern district of Munich, on Sunday, November 10, 1918, a birthday date that he shared with Martin Luther, the day on which Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to the Netherlands, and one day before the armistice of World War I [6, 7]. He was the third child of Karl Tobias Fischer (1871-1953), Professor of Physics at
  8. mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org

    Ernst Otto Fischer was a German theoretical chemist who received the chemistry prize for his identification of a completely new way in which metals and organic substances can combine. He shared the prize with Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921-96) of the UK for similar independent work on organometallic 'sandwich' compounds.
  9. oxfordreference.com

    Ernst Otto Fischer (1918—1994) Quick Reference (1918-1994) German inorganic chemist. Fischer, the son of a physics professor, was educated in his native city at the Munich Institute of Technology, where he obtained his PhD in 1952. He taught at the University of Munich serving as professor of inorganic chemistry from 1957 to 1964, when he ...
  10. encyclopedia.com

    Ernst Otto Fischer. 1918-German inorganic chemist who discovered a new kind of chemical bond between metals and organic molecules and founder of organometallic chemistry. Using x-ray crystallographic methods, he showed that ferrocene is made up of an iron atom sandwiched between two five-membered carbon rings (cyclopentadienes).
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