Emil Fischers From My Life

Download or read book Emil Fischer’s ‘’From My Life’’ written by David M. Behrman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a translation of Emil Fischer’s autobiography published in 1922 by Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, Germany. It is the first translation of this work into English, guiding the reader through the life of a man who was one of the greatest chemists of all time. Emil Fischer published very important papers on sugars, purines, and peptides. His proof of the stereo chemistry of glucose remains one of the great intellectual and practical achievements of science. The book is of great benefit to the current and future generations of chemists, giving them the chance to get to know Emil Fischer's life story.