에드먼드 피셔

소개

에드먼드 헨리 피셔(영어: Edmond Henri Fischer, 1920년 4월 6일 ~ 2021년 8월 27일)는 스위스계 미국 생화학자이다. 1992년에 단백질의 인산화에 대한 연구로 에드윈 G. 크레브스와 함께 노벨 생리학·의학상을 수상하였다.

Edmond Henri Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist. He and his collaborator Edwin G. Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. From 2007 until 2014, he was the Honorary President of the World Cultural Council. At the time of his death at age 101 in 2021, he was the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate.