In 1896, German chemist Emil Fischer noted something very strange ... Fischer (who went on to win a 1902 Nobel prize for other work, so he was clearly no quack) had observed something real ...

"He organized it," Emil Fischer Jr. said in 2010 about his father's role in the 1950 stock sale. "That was his deal. The Packers were in debt at the time and some of the executive committee ...

The handedness of small organic molecules has fascinated many generations of scientists, particularly owing to the pioneering contributions of Louis Pasteur and Emil Fischer. Modern science has ...