Richard R. Ernst

Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist.^[1] He was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. Ernst won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his works on the creation of Fourier transform Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy^[2] while at Varian Associates in Palo Alto, California.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Ernst was married to Magdalena until his death.^[8] Together, they had three children.

Ernst died on 4 June 2021 in Winterthur at the age of 87.^[8]

Works

• Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in One and Two Dimensions, Clarendon Press, 1987^[9]
• Richard R. Ernst: Nobelpreisträger aus Winterthur, Hier und Jetzt, Baden 2020
• Alois Feusi: Richard Ernst: Der Selbstzweifler, dem der Nobelpreis peinlich war. Summary of his autobiography. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 21 May 2020. Retrieved 22 May 2020

References

1. Alger, J R (1992). "The 1991 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to an MRI investigator". Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 16 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1097/00004728-199201000-00001. PMID 1729287.
2. Aue, W. P. (1976). "Two-dimensional spectroscopy. Application to nuclear magnetic resonance". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 64 (5): 2229–2246. Bibcode:1976JChPh..64.2229A. doi:10.1063/1.432450. ISSN 0021-9606. S2CID 10608225.
3. Freeview video interview with Richard Ernst by the Vega Science Trust
4. Interview with Professor Richard R. Ernst by Joanna Rose, science writer, 8 December 2001.
5. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991". Archived from the original on 2001-12-16. Retrieved 2021-06-09.
6. Ernst Autobiography at nobelprize.org
7. Ernst, Richard, R. "Richard R. Ernst". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 18 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
8. "Nobel-winning MRI pioneer Richard Ernst dies". The Straits Times. Singapore. Agence France-Presse. 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
9. Ernst, Richard R. (1987). Principles of nuclear magnetic resonance in one and two dimensions. Bodenhausen, Geoffrey., Wokaun, Alexander. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-855629-2. OCLC 12804280.