Emil Fischer papers, 1876-1919.

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Emil Fischer papers, 1876-1919.

Correspondence; manuscripts, including drafts of his autobiography; reprints of his writings; subject files relating to his research and to work during World War I, and to professional activities; laboratory notebooks, his own and those of his students; clippings; photographs; and certificates of election or appointment to scientific societies. Also included: two boxes of correspondence and papers of his son, Hermann, mainly letters of condolence on the death of his father, and laboratory notebooks of some of his students.

Originals : 39 boxes, 12 cartons, 7 oversize folders, 15 oversize volumes.Copies of outgoing correspondence, Boxes 1-6 : 10 microfilm reels : negative and positive.Copies of selected items : 3 microfilm reels : negative (BNEG Boxes 1633:1, 1651, 1633:2) and positive.Copies of selected items : 12 microfilm reels : negative.Copies of Giacomo Luigi Ciamician letters : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Box 3418) and positive (BANC FILM 3262).

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Fischer, Emil, 1852-1919

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German biochemist. From the description of Emil Fischer papers, 1876-1919. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227467251 From the description of Emil Fischer papers : Additions, 1876-1960. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 25809739 German chemist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Bordighera, and Berlin, to J.W. Brühl in Heidelberg, 1889 Apr. 9 and 1899 (postmark March) Feb. 2. (Unknown)...

Fischer, Hermann 1888-1960

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Hermann Otto Laurenz Fischer was born in 1888 in Würzburg, Bavaria. His father was Emil Fischer, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1902. Hermann Fischer was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Berlin, and received his doctorate in chemistry at Jena in 1912. During World War I he served in the German army's chemical warfare unit; his two older brothers died during the war, events which contributed to his father's suicide in 1919. Soon after the war Fischer was app...