articles and he trained many PhD and postdoctoral students, many of whom went on to noteworthy careers. Among his many foreign lectureships, he was Firestone Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1969), visiting professor at the University of Florida (1971), and Arthur D. Little visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973). He has received many awards including, in 1973 with Geoffrey Wilkinson, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on organometallic compounds. Death He died on 23 July 2007 in Munich. At the time of his death, Fischer was the oldest living German Nobel laureate. He was succeeded by Manfred Eigen, who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967 and is nine years younger than Fischer was. See also Organochromium chemistry Organouranium chemistry Chromocene Metallocene Osmocene Rhodocene Sandwich compound References C. Elschenbroich, A. Salzer ”Organometallics : A Concise Introduction” (2nd Ed) (1992) from Wiley-VCH: Weinheim. External links including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1973 On the Road to Carbene and Carbyne Complexes 1918 births 2007 deaths Inorganic chemists 20th-century German chemists Nobel laureates in Chemistry German Nobel laureates Technical University of Munich alumni Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities