Famous People with Name Fischer

Fischer Sheffey Black            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fischer Sheffey Black: was an American economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation.

Bernd Fischer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Bernd Fischer: is a German mathematician. He is best known to his contributions to the classification of finite simple groups, and he discovered several of the sporadic groups: he introduced 3-transposition groups and constructed the three Fischer groups, described the

Klaus Gunter Fischer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Klaus Gunter Fischer: was an American mathematician of German origin. He worked on a wide range of problems in algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, graph theory, and combinatorics.

Kuno Fischer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kuno Fischer: was a German philosopher, a historian of philosophy and a critic. After studying philosophy at Leipzig and Halle, became a privatdocent at Heidelberg in 1850. The Baden government in 1853 laid an embargo on his teaching owing to his liberal ideas, but the

Johann Friedrich Bernhard Fischer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johann Friedrich Bernhard Fischer: was a German bacteriologist noted for his classification system for bacteria. After attending Casimirianum from 1862 to 1871, he was educated at the University of Berlin, received the degree of M.D. in 1875, and went to Egypt and India as member of the German Cholera Commission. In 1889, he was a member of the Plankton Expedition and 10 years later became professor at the University of Kiel. There he also became head of the Institute of Hygiene. He became generally known for his classification of bacteria. His Structure and Functions of Bacteria (2d ed., 1900), was the standard in its field.

Harald Fischer            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Harald Fischer: was a German chiropractor residing in the West Bank since coming to Palestine in 1981 to work for a German charity. After retiring from professional life, Dr. Fischer continued to provide free medical care to local residents. He was residing with his Palestinian wife in Beit Jala near Bethlehem when his village was attacked by Israeli helicopter gunships. Fischer initially took cover under a stairwell with his wife, but later left his home to assist an injured neighbor whose house had been partially destroyed in the attack. As he entered the street Dr. Fischer was struck and instantly killed by an Israeli missile that left one of his legs severed and his body riddled with shrapnel.