Hans Fischer

@Chemists, Career and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hans Fischer was a famous German organic chemist Suicide German Scientists Chemists Organic Chemists Leo Celebrities Hans Fischer was a famous German organic chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in the structure of hemin, the red blood pigment, and chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants. His discovery made possible the artificial synthesis of hemin, ( the crystalline product of haemoglobin that provides the red color of the blood) from simpler organic compounds whose structure was recognized. He also studied the relationship between hemin and chlorophyll. He had worked extensively on the synthesis of chlorophyll. Along with these, Fischer studied carotene and porphyrin which are derivatives of hemin and figured out the structural formulas for both bilirubin that causes the yellow color in jaundice and biliverdin that causes the yellowish color of the bruises. He carried out microanalyses of more than 60,000 substances. Most of his research papers were published in the scientific journals, ‘Liebigs Annalen der Chemie’ and ‘Hoppe-Seylers Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie’. Apart from being a brilliant chemist, he was also a very efficient administrator of a research institute. Fischer was very popular with his staff and students. Even though he suffered from serious surgical tuberculosis yet it did not stop him from being an enthusiastic mountaineer, skier, and motorist. The lunar crater Fischer is named after Hans Fischer and Hermann Emil Fischer.

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Birthday: July 27, 1881 Died on: March 31, 1945 Nationality: German Famous: Scientists, Chemists, Organic Chemists Spouses: Wiltrud Haufe Universities: University of Marburg University of Lausanne Cause of death: Suicide Information Detail Birthday July 27, 1881 Died on March 31, 1945 Nationality German Famous Scientists, Chemists, Organic Chemists Spouses Wiltrud Haufe Universities University of Marburg University of Lausanne Cause of death Suicide Birth Place Höchst on Main, Germany Gender Male Father Dr. Eugen Fischer Mother Anna Herdegen Sun Sign Leo Born in Höchst on Main, Germany Famous as Chemist Died at Age 63

Höchst on Main, Germany

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In 1935, Fischer got married to Wiltrud Haufe. Unsplash Personal Life

On 31 March 1945, at the age of 63, Hans Fischer committed suicide in Munich in depression over the destruction of his institute and his work in the allied bombing raid during the last days of World War II. Unsplash Personal Life

Hans Fischer was born at Höchst am Main, Germany on July 27, 1881 to Dr. Eugen Fischer, Director of the firm of Kalle & Co, Wiesbaden, and Privatdozent at the Technical High School, Stuttgart, and Anna Herdegen. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He was initially educated in a primary school in Stuttgart, and later enrolled at the "humanistische Gymnasium" (grammar school with emphasis on the classics) in Wiesbaden from where he passed matriculation in 1899. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1899, he entered the University of Lausanne to study chemistry and medicine. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He was later transferred to the University of Marburg, where he graduated in chemistry under T. Zincke in 1904. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1906, he received a license for medicine at Munich and in 1908 Fischer qualified for his M.D. under F. von Müller at Munich. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Hans Fischer started his career at the Second Medical Clinic in Munich and at the First Berlin Chemical Institute under the chemist, Emil Fischer where he carried out some early experiments on bile pigments. Unsplash Career

He returned to Munich in 1911 and after one year, qualified as lecturer in internal medicine. Unsplash Career

From 1913 to 1916 he served as a lecturer in physiology at the Physiological Institute in Munich. Unsplash Career

In 1916 he succeeded Adolf Otto Reinhold Winaus as Professor of Medical Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck. Unsplash Career

After two years, he was invited to hold the chair of Medical chemistry at the University of Vienna. Unsplash Career

Hans Fischer’s most significant work is his synthesis of hemin, the crystalline product of hemoglobin. He split in half the molecule of bilirubin, a bile pigment related to hemin, and obtained a new acid that contained a section of the hemin molecule. Fischer recognized its structure and found that it was related to pyrrole. In this way, he performed the artificial synthesis of hemin from the structure of simpler compounds. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	July 27, 1881
Died on	March 31, 1945
Nationality	German
Famous	Scientists, Chemists, Organic Chemists
Spouses	Wiltrud Haufe
Universities	University of Marburg University of Lausanne
Cause of death	Suicide
Birth Place	Höchst on Main, Germany
Gender	Male
Father	Dr. Eugen Fischer
Mother	Anna Herdegen
Sun Sign	Leo
Born in	Höchst on Main, Germany
Famous as	Chemist
Died at Age	63

Hans Fischer

German

Jul 27, 1881

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Höchst on Main, Germany