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Authorised form of nameFischer; Emil Hermann (1852 - 1919)
Dates1852 - 1919
Place of birthEuskirchen, near Bonn, Germany
Date of birth09 October 1852
Place of deathBerlin, Germany
Date of death14 or 15 July 1919
Research fieldChemistry
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1902
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election01/06/1899
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1890
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1920-1921 vol 98 pp l-lvii, plate, signed by M O F
References:
W van der Kloot, 'April 1915: Five Future Nobel Prize-Winners Inaugurate Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Academic-Industrial-Military Complex' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 149-160
Notes:
DSB gives death date as 15 July 1919
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/71489994
CodeNA1491
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/4/852Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Hernn Professor Dr Emil Hermann Fischer, Würzburg11 November 1890
NLB/4/828Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor Emil Hermann Fischer6 November 1890
NLB/19/260Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrrs Harrison & Sons20 July 1899
EC/1899/20Fischer, Emil Hermann: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/57/142Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Tilden, FRS29 July 1919
NLB/57/167Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr MO [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS1 August 1919
NLB/57/105Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent23 July 1919
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
MC/15/106Letter from [Hermann] Emil [Louis] Fischer, Würzburg, to the Royal Society11 November 1890
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
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