Emil Fischer (1852-1919)

German chemist, born in Euskirchen. He obtained his doctorate in Strasbourg under Adolf von Baeyer and was professor at Erlangen, Würzburg and Berlin. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902 for his work on sugars and purines.

He discovered phenylhydrazine, established the configuration of glucose and devised the Fischer projection to draw it. With Arthur Speier he described in 1895 the acid-catalysed Fischer esterification, and he pioneered the synthesis of peptides.