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Ernst Otto Fischer

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Ernst Otto Fischer

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German chemist (1918–2007)

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Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973 for his groundbreaking discoveries about the structure and bonding of organometallic compounds, particularly those containing metal-carbon bonds. His work opened up an entirely new field of chemistry that has had important applications in industrial catalysis and materials science.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1973

    “for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Otto
Family name
Fischer
Gender
male
Citizenship
Germany
Place of death
Munich
Occupation
university teacher
Educated at
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Employer
Technical University of Munich
Languages spoken
German
Notable work
organometallic chemistry
Doctoral advisor
Walter Hieber
Field of work
chemistry
Image
Ernst Otto Fischer Stamp Germany 2018.jpg
Work location
Munich
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member of
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
name in native language
Ernst Otto Fischer
date of death
2007-07-23
date of birth
1918-11-10
Commons category
Ernst Otto Fischer
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
writing language
German
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interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

Ernst Otto Fischer ( German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁnst ˌɔto ˈfɪʃɐ] ; 10 November 1918 – 23 July 2007) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.

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