Ernst Otto Fischer

See also: Fischer

Ernst Otto Fischer (born the November 10th 1918 with Solln - died the July 23rd 2007 with Munich) was a German chemist, prize winner of the Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1973.

Biography

Ernst Otto Fischer was the son of Karl T. Fischer, professor of physics to the Université of Munich (Technische Universität) and of Valentine Fischer. It obtained its baccalaureat (Abitur) in 1937. The Second world war having burst, it was useful in Poland, France and Russia.

Fischer started to study chemistry at the university of Munich at the time of a permission in 1941. After the war, the Americans released it in autumn 1945. It resumed its studies and obtained its diploma in 1949. It carried out a thesis of doctorate in inorganic Chimie in the professor Walter Hieber. In 1957 he became professor at the university Ludwig Maximillian of Munich. In 1964, it accepted the inorganic pulpit of chemistry in Technische Universität. Moreover it became the same year member of the Academy of Science of Bavaria.

In 1973, it jointly accepted with Geoffrey Wilkinson the Nobel Prize of chemistry for its research on the complexes sandwich in organometallic Chimie (chemistry of the Métallocène S).

Ernst Otto Fischer is deceased the July 23rd 2007 with Munich.

External bonds

  • Prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of chemistry 1973
  • Autobiography on the site of the foundation Nobel

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