HANS FISCHER (1881–1945)
@article{Stern1973HANSF, title={HANS FISCHER (1881–1945)}, author={Alan J. Stern}, journal={Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences}, year={1973}, volume={206} }
Born on July 27, 1881 in Hoechst am Main, the center of important chemical industries, where his father held a leading industrial position, nobody could have foreseen that Hans Fischer was to become one of the greatest organic chemists. In 1904, he took his doctorate (Ph.D.) a t the University of Marburg under Theodore Zincke, and shortly afterwards he was engaged as an assistant to Emil Fischer in Berlin. His initial interest in pyrrole pigments was stimulated by Friederich von Mueller who…
3 Citations
Places and chemistry: Strasbourg--a chemical crucible seen through historical personalities.
- ArtChemical Society reviews
- 2011
This review is focused on the personalities of Strasbourg and Alsace who influenced many aspects of both the development and the perception of chemistry in particular.
Heme oxygenase in neuroprotection: from mechanisms to therapeutic implications
- BiologyReviews in the neurosciences
- 2014
Heme oxygenase was regarded as an enzyme to degrade heme in aging red blood cells; recent studies suggested HO might have other functions such as neuroprotection and up-regulation of HO-1 was also found in brain glial cells in the aging and neurodegenerative diseases.