Richard R. Ernst

Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist. 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 while at Varian Associates in Palo Alto, California.Freeview video interview with Richard Ernst by the Vega Science TrustInterview with Professor Richard R. Ernst by Joanna Rose, science writer, 8 December 2001.Ernst Autobiography at nobelprize.org

Ernst was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.

Ernst was married to Magdalena until his death.  Together, they had three children.

Ernst died on 4 June 2021 in Winterthur at the age of 87.

Works
 Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in One and Two Dimensions, Clarendon Press, 1987
 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

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