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D-Index
71
Citations
22853
World Ranking
5445
National Ranking
395

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1974 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1973 - Nobel Prize for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds
  • 1959 - Alfred-Stock-Gedächtnispreis (Alfred Stock Memorial Prize), German Chemical Society
  • 1938 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Ernst Otto Fischer was affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily focused on the fields of Arts and Humanities, with specific contributions to Literature and Literary Theory as well as History.

The scholar published work on several main topics including:

  • Literature and Cultural Memory
  • German History and Society
  • American Jewish Fiction Analysis

Frequent publication venues featured the journal Mosaic, where one known paper appeared. This paper, titled Chaos and Form, was published in 2021 within Mosaic.

They collaborated with co-authors such as Brigitte Schludermann during their career.

Ernst Otto Fischer received several awards, including:

  • Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 1974
  • Nobel Prize in 1973 for pioneering independent work on the chemistry of organometallic sandwich compounds
  • Alfred-Stock-Gedächtnispreis (Alfred Stock Memorial Prize) from the German Chemical Society in 1959
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1938
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, year unspecified

Best Publications

  • Cyclopentadien-Metallkomplexe, ein neuer Typ metallorganischer Verbindungen

    E. O. Fischer;W. Pfab

  • Zur Frage eines Wolfram‐Carbonyl‐Carben‐Komplexes

    E. O. Fischer;A. Maasböl

  • Übergangsmetall-Carben-Komplexe, II. Phenylmethoxycarben- und Methylmethoxycarben-pentacarbonyl-chrom, -molybdän, -wolfram und -cyclopentadienyl-dicarbonyl-mangan

    Unknown

  • Auf dem Weg zu Carben‐ und Carbin‐Komplexen (Nobel‐Vortrag)

    Ernst Otto Fischer

  • Di-benzol-chrom

    E. O. Fischer;W. Hafner

  • Temperature dependence of photoisomerization. VI. Viscosity effect

    Dina Gegiou;K. A. Muszkat;Ernst Fischer

  • trans-Halogeno[alkyl(aryl)carbyne]tetracarbonyl Complexes of Chromium, Molybdenum, and Tungsten —A New Class of Compounds Having a Transition Metal-Carbon Triple Bond†

    Ernst Otto Fischer;Gerhard Kreis;Cornelius G. Kreiter;Jörn Müller

  • Temperature dependence of photoisomerization. V. Effect of substituents on the photoisomerization of stilbenes and azobenzenes

    Dina Gegiou;K. A. Muszkat;Ernst Fischer

  • On the Way to Carbene and Carbyne Complexes

    Ernst Otto Fischer

  • The Aromatic Reactivity of Ferrocene, Ruthenocene and Osmocene1,2

    Marvin D. Rausch;Ernst O. Fischer;Heinrich Grubert

  • Two new chromium-carbonyl-carbene complexes

    Ulrich. Klabunde;Ernst Otto. Fischer

  • Über Aromatenkomplexe von Metallen, XXIV. Über gemischte Tricarbonylkomplexe des Chroms, Molybdäns und Wolframs mit Benzol und seinen Derivaten

    Ernst Otto Fischer;Ernst Otto Fischer;Karl Öfele;Karl Öfele;Hans Essler;Hans Essler;Walter Fröhlich;Walter Fröhlich

  • trans‐Halogeno‐alkyl(aryl)carbin‐tetracarbonyl‐Komplexe von Chrom, Molybdän und Wolfram–Ein neuer Verbindungstyp mit Übergangsmetall‐Kohlenstoff‐Dreifachbindung

    Ernst Otto Fischer;Gerhard Kreis;Cornelius G. Kreiter;Jörn Mülle

  • Übergangsmetall—carbin-komplexe : VII. Darstellung, eigenschaften und reaktionsverhalten von übergangsmetallcarbonyl—carbin-komplexen☆

    Ernst otto Fischer;Ulrich Schubert

  • Transition Metal Carbene Complexes

    M.D. Cooke;E.O. Fischer

  • Übergangsmetall-carben-komplexe XXVII. Ringsubstituierte (Methoxyphenylcarben)-pentacarbonylchrom(o)-komplexe

    E.O. Fischer;C.G. Kreiter;H.J. Kollmeier;J. Müller

  • Übergangsmetall‐Carben‐Komplexe, XLII. Synthese von Cyclopropanderivaten aus α.β‐ungesättigten Carbonsäureestern mit Hilfe von Übergangsmetall‐Carbonyl‐Carben‐Komplexen

    Karl Heinz Dötz;Ernst Otto Fischer

  • Übergangsmetall-Carben-Komplexe, LI Synthese von Cyclopropanderivaten aus Vinyläthern mit Hilfe von Übergangsmetall-Carbonyl-Carben-Komplexen

    Ernst Otto Fischer;Karl Heinz Dötz

  • Uber dicyclopentadienyleuropium und dicyclopentadienylytterbium und tricyclopentadienyle des terbiums, holmiums, thuliums und lutetiums

    Ernst Otto Fischer;Hartmut Fischer

  • Äthylen-Metall-Komplexe, I. Über kationische Äthylenkomplexe des Eisens, Molybdäns und Wolframs†

    Ernst Otto Fischer;Konrad Fichtel

  • Übergangsmetall-Carben-Komplexe, IV. Addition von Isonitrilen an Methylmethoxycarben-pentacarbonyl-chrom(0)

    Unknown

  • Übergangsmetall‐Carben‐Komplexe, LIV. Synthese von übergangsmetall‐carbonyl‐ylid‐Komplexen aus übergangsmetall‐carbonyl‐carben‐Komplexen

    Fritz Roland Kreißl;Ernst Otto Fischer;Cornelius Gerhard Kreiter;Helmut Fischer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich S. Schubert
Ulrich S. Schubert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Gottfried Huttner
Gottfried Huttner Heidelberg University
Helmut Werner
Helmut Werner University of Würzburg
Helmut G. Alt
Helmut G. Alt University of Bayreuth
Henri Brunner
Henri Brunner University of Regensburg
Karl Heinz Dötz
Karl Heinz Dötz University of Bonn
Wolfgang A. Herrmann
Wolfgang A. Herrmann Technical University of Munich
Erwin Weiss
Erwin Weiss Universität Hamburg
Jean Rebizant
Jean Rebizant Joint Research Center
Wolfgang Kellerer
Wolfgang Kellerer Technical University of Munich

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