Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1899. He was awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses." 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–Speier esterification Fischer glycosidation Kiliani–Fischer synthesis The Fischer–Tropsch process is named after Franz Emil Fischer, who headed the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Muelheim, and is unrelated to Fischer. References "From My Life", an English translation of "Aus Meinem Leben", Emil Fischer's autobiography. D. M. and E. J. Behrman, Springer Verlag, 2022. External links including his Nobel Lecture Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1902 Syntheses in the Purine and Sugar Group Eminent Chemists of Our Time By Benjamin Harrow pages 216–239, published 1920 by Von Nostrand Company at books.google.com. Guide to the Emil Fischer Papers at The Bancroft Library Text-book of Physiological Chemistry in Thirty Lectures by Emil Abderhalden, translated by William Thomas Hall and George Defren; published 1908 by Wiley Company, has many technical references to Fischer's work in Chemistry. American Journal of Diseases of Children 1911 volume 2 by the American Medical Association also refers to Fischer's work. An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology by Fielding Hudson Garrison, page 708 refers to Fischer and Merings discovery of the drugs veronal(1904) and proponal(1905), published 1921 by Saunders Company. 1914 Year Book of the American Pharmaceutical Association, page 438 abstracts Fischer and Strauss's work on Phenol-Glucosides – Synthetic Production from Berlin d.D Chem. Germany, page 45(1912) No. 12. 1852 births 1919 suicides 19th-century German chemists 20th-century German chemists People from Euskirchen Carbohydrate chemistry German biochemists German Nobel laureates Nobel laureates in Chemistry Organic chemists Stereochemists Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg People from the Rhine Province Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Suicides in Germany University of Bonn alumni Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala