One of the greatest promoters of structural organic chemistry around the turn of the century was Emil Fisher, who, as early as 1893, had already the structure of cellulose as a polysaccharide in mind.

• 在上世纪末和本世纪初，埃米尔·费希尔是结构有机化学方面最伟大的推动者之一。早在1893年，他就认为纤维素的结构是聚糖。