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Fischer   /fˈɪʃər/   Listen
Fischer

noun
1.
German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945).  Synonym: Hans Fischer.
2.
German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919).  Synonym: Emil Hermann Fischer.
3.
United States chess master; world champion from 1972 to 1975 (born in 1943).  Synonyms: Bobby Fischer, Robert James Fischer.



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"Fischer" Quotes from Famous Books



... under the eye of the Demonstrator. But I am so far from wishing these courses extended, that I think some of them—suppose I say my own—would almost bear curtailing. Do you want me to describe more branches of the sciatic and crural nerves? I can take Fischer's plates, and lecturing on that scale fill up my whole course and not finish the nerves alone. We must stop somewhere, and for my own part I think the scholastic exercises of our colleges have already claimed their full share of the student's time ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... Park they found his house, but the conductor's wife, Mrs. Fischer, said her husband was asleep and she never disturbed him at that hour of the day, as he had a long run before him, ...
— Marjorie at Seacote • Carolyn Wells

... allows of the supposition, that at a remote period they gave inhabitants to the desert continent of America. But this is a point which has not yet been clearly elucidated by science. See Malte Brun, vol. v.; the works of Humboldt; Fischer, "Conjecture sur l'Origine des Americains;" Adair, "History ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al



Words linked to "Fischer" :   chess master, Fischer's slime mushroom, Bobby Fischer, Robert James Fischer, chemist



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