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WE regret to record the death on April 4, after a prolonged illness, of Prof. Otto Mscher, who was associated for many years with his more famous cousin, the late Emil Fischer. From the Chemiker-Zeitung we learn that Otto Fischer was born in 1852 at Euskirchen, near Cologne. On leaving school, he studied for a short time with Kekulé at Bonn before proceeding to Strassburg, where he began his researches on the synthesis of hydrocarbons under Adolph von Baeyer, and where Emil had already begun his career. After graduating in 1874, Otto proceeded to Charlottenburg to work with Lieber-mann, but two years later he rejoined von Baeyer, who had in the meantime been called to Munich. In Munich the cousins Fischer worked upon the preparation of organic hydrazines and upon the dyestuffs of the triphenylmethane group. In 1882, Emil was appointed to the chair at Erlangen, but his health broke down and, in 1884, Otto was sent to act as his substitute. In the following year, Emil accepted the chair at Wurzburg, and Otto was appointed to succeed him at Erlangen, This post he held until his retirement in 1925.
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Prof. Otto Fischer. Nature 129, 822 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129822a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/129822a0