Searching and Researching : an Autobiography of a Nobel Laureate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ernst, Richard R.

Contributor:

Meili, Matthias.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ernst, Richard R.

Chemists--Biography.

Chemists.

Nobel Prize winners--Biography.

Nobel Prize winners.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 240 pages)

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Richard R. Ernst was full Professor of Physical Chemistry since 1976. He directed a research group devoted to magnetic resonance spectroscopy, was director of the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at the ETH Zurich and retired in 1998. He was born as a citizen 1933 in Winterthur. He finished 1962 his studies at the ETH Zurich with a dissertation on nuclear magnetic resonance in the discipline of physical chemistry. 1963 he joined Varian Associates as a scientist and developed Fourier-​transform NMR, noise decoupling, and several other techniques. 1968 he returned to ETH Zurich, became 1968 Lecturer, 1970 Assistant Professor, 1972 Associate Professor, 1976 Full Professor, and retired 1998. Since 1968, he was head of a research group concentrating on methodological developments in liquid state and solid state NMR. He developed two-​dimensional NMR and many novel pulse techniques. He contributed to the development of medical magnetic resonance tomo-​graphy, and in collaboration with Professor Kurt Wüthrich to the development of the NMR structure determination of biopolymers in solution. Lately, he was involved in the study of intramolecular dynamics. In addition he was engaged in numerous activities. He was president of the Reseach Council of ETH Zurich and he is presently, among other duties, a member of the Swiss Science Council, of the COST Committee, of the Foundation Marcel Benoist, of the Hochschulrat of the Technische Universität Munich, and Vicepresident of the Board of Bruker AG, Fällanden. He is on the editorial board of 10 scientific journals. He received numerous honours, including the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1991), the Wolf Prize for Chemistry (1991), the Horwitz Prize (1991), and the Marcel Benoist Prize (1986). He received honorary doctors degrees of ETH Lausanne, Technische Universität Munich, Universität Zurich, University Antwerpen, Babes-​Bolyai University, Cluj-​Napoca, and University Montpellier. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, London, of the Deutsche Akademie Leopoldina, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, and honorary member of many further societies.

Contents:

1. Prologue2. Childhood and youth, 1933-19523. Undergraduate degree and dissertation at ETH Zurich, 1952-19624. Silver linings over the Pacific, 1963-19685. Return to ETH, 1968-19906. The light at the end of the tunnel

The Nobel Prize, 19917. Thangkas

The other dimension8. My legacy9. Afterword10. NMR-Glossary

Notes:

"Jenny Stanford Publishing."

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

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Print version: Ernst, Richard R. Searching and Researching.

ISBN:

9781003200307

1003200303

9781000429695

1000429695

9781000429633

1000429636

Publisher Number:

99990352806

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