Richard R. Ernst
Richard Robert Ernst ( born August 14, 1933, Winterthur ) is a Swiss chemist.
He received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering contributions to the development of high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR).
Richard R. Ernst studied at the ETH Zurich Chemistry and graduated in 1962 with a thesis on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy his doctorate in physical chemistry from. 1962-1968 he worked as a researcher at Varian Associates in Palo Alto, California, where he developed the Fourier-transform NMR, noise decoupling and other methods. In 1968 he returned to the ETH Zurich and built a research group in NMR spectroscopy with emphasis on methodological developments in liquid and solid phase. It stimulated the development of medical magnetic resonance imaging. In collaboration with Kurt Wüthrich, he made important contributions to the development of NMR structure determination of biopolymers in solution. In 1998 he retired.
Richard R. Ernst is a member of the Swiss Science Council, the Board of the Marcel Benoist Foundation and the University Council of the Technical University of Munich. He is on the editorial boards of ten academic journals.
He has received numerous honors, including the Nobel Prize for Chemistry ( 1991), the Wolf Prize (1991 ), the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (1991) and the Marcel Benoist Prize (1986). He holds honorary doctorates from the ETH Lausanne, Munich Technical University, the University of Zurich, the University of Antwerp, Babeş - Bolyai University and the University of Montpellier. He is a member of the U.S. 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 and an honorary member of many other societies.
Richard Ernst lives in Winterthur.