biography
pronunciation:
[fisher]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1945)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Höchst, WC Germany. He studied at Marburg and at Munich, where he became professor of chemistry (1921). He investigated the biological pigments that occur in animal and vegetable life, discovered the stucture of haemin, the red non-protein part of haemoglobin, and synthesized it in 1929. His studies of chlorophylls showed that they are porphyrins related in structure to haemin. He later discovered the structure of bilirubin, and synthesized it in 1944. For his work on porphyrins he was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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