Richard R. Ernst
Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate (1933–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate.[2]
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Born | Richard Robert Ernst (1933-08-14)14 August 1933 Winterthur, Switzerland |
Died | 4 June 2021(2021-06-04) (aged 87) Winterthur, Switzerland |
Alma mater | ETH Zurich (PhD) |
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Thesis | Kernresonanz-Spektroskopie mit stochastischen Hochfrequenzfeldern (1962) |
Doctoral advisors | Hans H. Günthard Hans Primas |
Doctoral students | Marc Baldus |
Website | chab |
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Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy[3] while at Varian Associates and ETH Zurich.[4][5][6][7][8] These underpin applications to both to chemistry with NMR spectroscopy and to medicine with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).[1]
He humbly referred to himself as a "tool-maker" rather than a scientist.[9]