Ernst Otto Fischer:
Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
November 10, 1918 in Munich, Germany
Death:
July 23, 2007 in Munich, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Fischer was a German chemist who shares the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Geoffrey Wilkinson for their independent pioneering work with organometallic compounds. He worked on compounds with transition metal complexes and catalysts to hydrogenate alkenes into alkanes. He also identified the structure of the sandwich compound, ferrocene.
