15 Facts About Hans Fischer

Hans Fischer went to a primary school in Stuttgart, and later to the "Humanistisches Gymnasium" in Wiesbaden, matriculating in 1899.

Hans Fischer read chemistry and medicine, first at the University of Lausanne and then at Marburg.

Hans Fischer worked first at a Medical Clinic in Munich and then at the First Berlin Chemical Institute under Emil Fischer.

Hans Fischer returned to Munich in 1911 and qualified as lecturer on internal medicine one year later.

Hans Fischer received many honors for this work, and received the Nobel Prize in 1930.

The lunar crater Hans Fischer was named after him in 1976.

Hans Fischer Fisher had mapped the composition of a hem group.

In 1929 Hans Fischer succeeded in producing the substance and proving that its ring has a central atom of iron, as he continued studying other pigmented substances of a biological importance of biochemistry such as chlorophyll, the color that plays part in a plants photosynthesis.

Hans Fischer unraveled the bile pigments biliverdin and bilirubin, and synthesized them in 1942 and 1944, successively.

Hans Fischer conducted microanalyses of more than 60,000 chemical substance, and had won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1930.

The person that sparked Hans Fischer's interest was von Muller, his former professor and supervisor whom interests were in pyrrole pigments by inviting Hans Fischer to work with him at the well-known Second Medical Clinic in Munich in 1910.

Hans Fischer's succession came with difficulty's as many of his experiments seemed to have failed but with time Hans Fischer was able to perfect his acknowledgement with his failed attempts.

Hans Fischer married Wiltrud Haufe around his 50's in the year 1935.

Hans Fischer was a man who was dedicated almost "exclusively" to his work.

Hans Fischer continued his scientific research during Germany's Nazi era, and committed suicide on Easter Sunday in 1945, after his laboratory and life's work had been destroyed by the bombing in the last days of World War II.