Honours, Awards, and Legacy
Fischer was made a Prussian Geheimrat (Excellenz), and held honorary doctorates of the Universities of Christiania, Cambridge (England), Manchester and Brussels. He was also awarded the Prussian Order of Merit and the Maximilian Order for Arts and Sciences. In 1902 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine synthesis.
Many names of chemical reactions and concepts are named after him:
- Fischer indole synthesis
- Fischer projection
- Fischer oxazole synthesis
- Fischer peptide synthesis
- Fischer phenylhydrazine and oxazone reaction
- Fischer reduction
- Fischer-Speier esterification
- Fischer glycosidation
When Fischer died in 1919, the Emil Fischer Memorial Medal was instituted by the German Chemical Society.
Note that the Fischer-Tropsch process is named after Franz Emil Fischer a chemist who was no relation, head of the Institut fuer Kohlenforschung in Muelheim.
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