German theoretical chemist and educator who received the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry in 1973 for his identification of a completely new way
in which metals and organic substances can combine. He shared the prize
with Geoffrey Wilkinson of Great Britain.
In 1951 Fischer read about a newly developed synthetic compound called
ferrocene whose structure was unknown. After studying the substance,
he concluded that it consisted of two five-sided carbon rings with a
single iron atom sandwiched between them. Wilkinson made this same discovery
of organometallic sandwich compounds independently of Fischer, and the
two men shared the Nobel Prize for their work.
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