July 27

© 1997, 1998 by Paul A. Schons

July 27, 1881

Birth in Frankfurt am Main, Germany of Hans Fischer, physician and professor of medical chemistry at the University of Munich. Fischer won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1930 for research on hemin in blood and chlorophyll in plants.

July 27, 1917

Death of Emil Theodor Kocher in Bern, Switzerland. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1909 for his work on the thyroid gland.

 

July 27, 1974

Thomas Bernhard’s play, Force of Habit (Die Macht der Gewohnheit), is produced for the first time in Salzburg, Austria.

July 27, 1997

Jan Ullrich of Rostock, Germany wins the Tour de France.