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| | Emil Fischer - Biography |
 | | His father was a successful business man. After three years with a private tutor, Emil went to the local school and then spent two years at school at Wetzlar, and two more at Bonn where he passed his final examination in 1869 with great distinction. |
 | | Hermann Emil Fischer was born on October 9, 1852, at Euskirchen, in the Cologne district. |
 | | In 1872, however, Emil, who still wished to study physics, was persuaded by his cousin Otto Fischer, to go with him to the newly established University of Strasbourg, where Professor Rose was working on the Bunsen method of analysis. |
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