and bilirubin (which yellows skin in jaundice cases), and synthesized them in 1942 and 1944, successively. He conducted microanalyses of more than 60,000 chemical substance, and had won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1930. The person that sparked Fischer's interest was von Muller, his former professor and supervisor whom interests were in pyrrole pigments by inviting Fischer to work with him at the well-known Second Medical Clinic in Munich in 1910. Under Muller, he began to examine the composition of the bile pigment bilirubin, something he would continue to be engaged in during the decades that followed. Fischer's succession also came with difficulty's as many of his experiments seemed to have failed but with time Fischer was able to perfect his acknowledgement with is failed attempts. Personal life Fischer married Wiltrud Haufe around his 50's in the year 1935. Fischer was a man whom dedicated almost "exclusively" to his work. He continued his scientific research during Germany's Nazi era, and committed suicide on Easter Sunday in 1945, after his laboratory and life's work had been destroyed by the bombing in the last days of World War II. Honours Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1919) Privy Councillor (1925) Liebig Memorial Medal (1929) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1930) Honorary doctorate, Harvard University (1936) Davy Medal of the Royal Society of London (1937) Literature References External links including the Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1930 1881 births 1945 suicides German Nobel laureates Organic chemists 20th-century German chemists Nobel laureates in Chemistry Scientists from Frankfurt People from Hesse-Nassau University of Marburg alumni Academic staff of the University of Innsbruck Academic staff of the University of Vienna Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich Suicides in Germany 1945 deaths