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Hans Fischer, to whom we owe most of our knowledge of the chemistry of hæmin, chlorophyll and the bile-pigments, died on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1945, but his death has only recently become known in Britain. He was born in Höchst on July 27, 1881, the son of Eugen Fischer, a director of Kalle and Co. Fischer studied chemistry at Lausanne and Munich, leading to a doctorate at Marburg under Zincke. There followed medical studies at Munich, where his interest in hæmin and the bile-pigments was aroused. He then worked with Emil Fischer before going to Innsbruck (in 1916), to Vienna (in 1918), and finally to succeed Wieland at the Technische Hochschule, Munich, in 1921.
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MACDONALD, S. Prof. Hans Fischer. Nature 160, 494–495 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160494a0
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