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Emil Fischer
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<p>Hermann Emil Louis Fischer <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society/cWs8TdC5">FRS</a> <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh/0U0vEtuK">FRSE</a> <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Chemical_Society/hsYUGrXH">FCS</a> was a German <a href="/facts/Chemist/N09K7Bdm">chemist</a> and <a href="/facts/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Chemistry/7osWRyAd">1902 recipient</a> of the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry/8Nb8Ajjy">Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a>. He discovered the <a href="/facts/Fischer_esterification/a8XgmLgl">Fischer esterification</a>. He also developed the <a href="/facts/Fischer_projection/SVEblozd">Fischer projection</a>, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms. He also hypothesized lock and key mechanism of enzyme action. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his life simply as Emil Fischer. </p>