Hermann Emil Fischer:
Hermann Emil Fischer was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 9, 1852 in Euskirchen, Prussia
Death:
July 15, 1919 in Berlin, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Fischer was a German chemist who was awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into sugar and purine synthesis. Purine is the name for a family of organic compounds that are composed of a two ring structure of nitrogen and carbon atoms. Fisher coined the term purine and synthesized several purines such as adenine, xanthine and caffeine.
Fischer synthesized the sugars glucose, fructose and mannose for the first time. He also discovered the cyclic amino acids proline and oxyproline and identified the peptide bond that holds together amino acid chains.
