Franz Joseph Emil Fischer

Franz Fischer (1911)

Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (19 March 1877 in Freiburg im Breisgau – 1 December 1947 in Munich) was a German chemist and father to Artur Fischer and Siegfried Fischer. He and Hans Tropsch discovered the Fischer-Tropsch process. With Hans Schrader he developed the Fischer Assay, a standardized laboratory test for determining the oil yield from oil shale to be expected from a conventional shale oil extraction.^[1] He also worked with Wilhelm Ostwald and Hermann Emil Fischer.^[2] In 1913 he became Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim.

Awards

• Wilhelm Exner Medal, 1936

References

1. Heistand, Robert N. (1976). "The Fischer Assay, standard method?" (PDF). San Francisco: Symposium on oil shale, tar sands, and related materials — production and utilization of synfuels. Retrieved 2008-08-18.
2. Chemist biographies