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W. V. Farrar has written a biography of Meyer and provided information on the complete list of Meyer’s monographs and publications. K. H. Meyer and H. F. Mark produced the first complete textbook of the polymer chemistry This textbook was updated in collaboration with
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Edmond H. Fischer and Alfred Piguet : "Macromolecules and
Enzymes: the Geneva heritage from Kurt H. Meyer and Edmond H. Fischer", Chimia, Vol. 63, 2009, ppP. 835-838. This article has a photograph (4th picture) with Meyer (in middle) and Fischer (on right
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Sixteen articles about the alpha-amylase, the doctoral research topic of Edmond H. Fischer, were published of which one is cited here
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Kurt H. Meyer, Hermann F. Mark: "Hochpolymere Chemie. Ein Lehr-und
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