Hans Fischer:
Hans Fischer was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
July 27, 1881 in Höchst, Germany
Death:
March 31, 1945 in Munich, Austria
Claim to Fame:
Fischer was a German chemist who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into biological pigments. He researched chlorophyll, carotene and synthesized of hemin, the red pigment in hemoglobin. He found these structures were based on the structure of pyrrole.
