Hans Fischer
Hans Fischer ( born July 27, 1881 in Höchst am Main, † March 31, 1945 in Munich) was a German chemist and physician. For his work " on the structural composition of the blood and plant dyes and for the synthesis of hemin " Fischer was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Biography
Fischer's parents were Anna Fischer, born Herdegen, and professor Dr. Eugen Fischer, a chemist and company director of the Wiesbaden Kalle & Co. After primary school in Stuttgart Fischer visited the Humanistic Gymnasium in Wiesbaden, where he graduated in 1899 with the Abitur.
Subsequently, Fischer studied in Lausanne, Munich and Marburg chemistry and medicine. In Marburg he became in 1899 a member of the fraternity Alemannia Marburg. He completed his chemistry studies in 1904 from a PhD. This was followed up in 1908 to study medicine in Munich, in 1908 Fischer received his doctorate in medicine.
Following Fischer worked in the years 1908-1915 at the Second Medical Clinic in Munich, at the same time he attended from 1910 to 1911 a research stay at the First Chemical Institute Berlin under Emil Fischer. In 1912, Fischer habilitated as a professor of internal medicine; In 1913, he was the successor of EF wine country at the Physiological Institute in Munich. There he was appointed in 1915 to associate professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich.
In 1916 Fischer was appointed successor to Adolf Windaus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck. From there he followed a call from the University of Vienna in 1918, where he held the Chair of Medicinal Chemistry until 1921. Fischer 1921 as the successor of Heinrich Wieland Professor for Organic Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich was.
1935 married Fischer Wiltrud crowd.
After his institute and its work had been destroyed by the effects of World War II, Fischer chose despair in the spring of 1945 to commit suicide. 1947 to be the chair of Stefan Goldschmidt was taken.
Work
Fischer's life's work was the chemistry and structure elucidation of Pyrrolfarbstoffe. He worked on the bile pigments urobilin, biliverdin and bilirubin, which he successfully synthesized in 1942. 1928 Fischer succeeded the synthesis of the dye hemin.
Fischer also took begun by Richard Willstätter research on chlorophyll again, in 1940, he was able to enlighten the structure of the molecule. His research results were confirmed in 1960 by Robert B. Woodward's chlorophyll synthesis.