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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Chemistry (180) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1970s (104) 1973 (12) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1910s (117) 1918 (22) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, central (101) Germany (84) Solln (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 2000s (70) 2007 (6) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, central (62) Germany (56) Munich (9) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name E-K (339) E (55) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name E-K (239) F (33) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name E-K (229) E (31) Ernst (3) 22. Shared Family Name 22. Shared Family Name E-K (24) F (8) Fischer (4) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 56 (23) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Chemists and Materials Scientists (111) Chemists (111) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, central (117) Germany (98) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, central (70) Germany (64) Munich (9) Technical University (3) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, central (165) Germany (154) Munich (51) Technical University of Munich (18) Alumni (13) Long-term academic staff (6) University of Munich (42) Long-term academic staff (12) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) Austrian Academy of Sciences (14) B (102) Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (67) E-P (571) G (195) German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (179) Göttingen Academy of Sciences (26) N (352) North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts (15) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) A (285) Alfred Stock Memorial Prize (1) B (132) Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (25) Bavarian Order of Merit (7) Bayerischer Poetentaler (1) C-D (404) C (272) Centenary Prize (31) G-H (389) G (254) Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (23) M-N (333) M (172) Munich "München leuchtet" award (1) complete name: Ernst Otto Fischer nobel prize: chemistry award year: 1973 together with: Geoffrey Wilkinson prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973 was awarded jointly to Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Ernst family name: Fischer occupation: chemist occupation: university teacher work location: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Landshut, Germany description: Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1973/summary/> date birth: 1918 date death: 2007 usual name: Ernst Fischer