Richard R. Ernst

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Richard Robert Ernst (born August 14, 1933 in Winterthur ; † June 4, 2021 there ) was a Swiss chemist who received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .

Career

Richard R. Ernst studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich and completed his doctorate in physical chemistry in 1962 with a dissertation under Hans H. Günthard and Hans Primas on the subject of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy with stochastic high-frequency fields . 1962–1968 he worked as a researcher at Varian Associates in Palo Alto , California , where he did NMR-Fourier spectroscopy, noise decoupling and other methods developed. In 1968 he returned to the ETH Zurich and built up a research group in NMR spectroscopy with a focus on methodical developments in the liquid and solid phase. He stimulated the development of medical magnetic resonance imaging . In collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich , he made important contributions to the development of the NMR structure determination method for biopolymers in solution. For his groundbreaking contributions to the development of high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) he received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1998 he retired .

Richard R. Ernst was a member of the Swiss Science Council (2000–2002), the Board of Trustees of the Marcel Benoist Foundation and the University Council of the Technical University of Munich.

He received numerous other honors, including the Wolf Prize (1991), the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1991) and the Marcel Benoist Prize (1986). He was an honorary doctor from the ETH Lausanne , the Technical University of Munich , the University of Zurich , the University of Antwerp , the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj and the University of Montpellier . He was a member of the US National Academy of Sciences , Foreign Member of the Royal Society , London, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , the Russian Academy of Sciences , the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, the Academia Europaea , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and honorary member of many other societies. Since 1998 the specialist group for magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the Society of German Chemists has been awarding a prize named after him to three young scientists every year.

Richard Ernst lived in Winterthur and died there at the beginning of June 2021 at the age of 87.

literature

Web links

Commons : Richard Ernst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Richard Ernst has passed away. In: SRF.ch, June 8, 2021.
  2. ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Richard R. Ernst at academictree.org, accessed on February 4, 2018.
  3. ^ Michael Simm: Richard Ernst - Nobel Prize for NMR Spectroscopy, "Die Welt", October 17, 1991
  4. ↑ Swiss Science Council SWR: Former council members 2000-2011. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Member entry by Richard R. Ernst (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ernst Award | Society of German Chemists V. Retrieved September 27, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Matthias Meili: He hid in his laboratory, reappeared weeks later - and beamed: The story of a Nobel Prize winner from Winterthur. In: NZZ on Sunday , May 23, 2020.
  8. ↑ Alois Feusi: Richard Ernst: The self- doubter who was embarrassed by the Nobel Prize. Discussion of his autobiography. NZZ, May 21, 2020, accessed on May 22, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Richard R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernst, Richard Robert (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Winterthur