Ernst Otto Fischer

German chemist (1918–2007)

Ernst Otto Fischer made a career in science at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Ernst Otto Fischer as German chemist (1918–2007).

Ernst Otto Fischer was born at Solln in 1918. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Technical University of Munich and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.

The record gives his occupations as chemist and university teacher.

His affiliations include Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Technical University of Munich.

His principal work is organometallic chemistry. A scientific contribution counts if the next generation could build on it without re-checking.

His recorded fields of work are chemistry.

The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1973), Bavarian Order of Merit and Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Working from Germany shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Ernst Otto Fischer died in 2007 at the age of 89. The work outlived the arguments around it.

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