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Noun
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German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945)
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German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919)
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United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943)
Usage examples
- Fischer insisted that a Staunton chess set from Jaques of London be used.
- Most of his music was published by Carl Fischer.
- He was the grandfather of Bram Fischer, a noted anti-apartheid activist.
- She also took private lessons from the renowned philosopher and Sanscrit scholar Kuno Fischer.
- The autumn after their arrival, Fischer came home from work one evening, looking terrified.
- This time they lost to Christinna Pedersen and Joachim Fischer of Denmark.
- Albert Fischer lived with his Frau Heidi and his son Oliver in Buch on the lake Ammersee.
- List of books and documentaries by or about Bobby Fischer
- Sasol commercially employs Fischer-Tropsch synthesis to make fuels from synthesis gas derived from coal.
- Together with Stanley Fischer he also wrote widely used undergraduate textbooks.