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Richard R. Ernst

1933 - 2021

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Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy while at Varian Associates and ETH Zurich. These underpin applications to both to chemistry with NMR spectroscopy and to medicine with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He humbly referred to himself as a "tool-maker" rather than a scientist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard R. Ernst is the 132nd most popular chemist (down from 107th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 68th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Chemist.

Richard R. Ernst is most famous for his work in the development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard R. Ernst ranks 132 out of 602. Before him are George Andrew Olah, William Lipscomb, Paul Berg, Christian B. Anfinsen, William E. Moerner, and Jaroslav Heyrovský. After him are Joseph Proust, John Cornforth, Harold Urey, Wilfrid Voynich, Gerhard Ertl, and Robert Burns Woodward.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Richard R. Ernst ranks 31. Before him are Paul J. Crutzen, Philip Roth, Elinor Ostrom, Krzysztof Penderecki, Corazon Aquino, and Mako. After him are Fouad Mebazaa, Ronald Evans, Kim Novak, Steven Weinberg, Quincy Jones, and Edmund Phelps. Among people deceased in 2021, Richard R. Ernst ranks 24. Before him are Desmond Tutu, Raffaella Carrà, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Carlos Menem, Isamu Akasaki, and Captain Tom. After him are Jacques Rogge, Robert Downey Sr., Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, Bell hooks, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and Charlie Watts.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Richard R. Ernst ranks 57 out of 1,015. Before him are Robert Walser (1878), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Ursula Andress (1936), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), and Angelica Kauffman (1741). After him are Henry Fuseli (1741), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Auguste Piccard (1884), Michel Mayor (1942), Johannes Itten (1888), and Kurt Wüthrich (1938).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Richard R. Ernst ranks 3. Before him are Albert Hofmann (1906), and Paul Hermann Müller (1899). After him are Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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