Richard Ernst#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 513 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.chab.ethz.ch/personen/emeritus/rernst |
Richard Ernst passed away June 4, 2021.
Positions Held
- 1976 - 1998 Full professor at Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich
- 1972 - 1976 Associate Professor at Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich
- 1970 - 1972 Assistant professor at Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich
- 1963 - 1968 Research chemist at Varian Associates, Palo Alto, California,
- 1962 - Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich
- 1956 - Diploma in chemistry
Fields of Scholarship
- Fourier Transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Subsequent development of multi-dimensional NMR techniques
Honours and Awards
- 2000 Tadeus Reichstein Medal
- 1995 H.-R. Schinz-Medaille, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Radiologie
- 1992 The Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Achievements in Mag-netic Resonance
- 1991 Luisa Gross Horwitz Prize in Biology and Biochemistry, Columbia University in the City of New York
- 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm
- 1991 Wolf-Prize for Chemistry, Jerusalem
- 1990 Ampere Prize, 25th Ampere Congress, Stuttgart
- Member of Academia Europea
- 1989 John Gamble Kirkwood Medal by Yale University and the New Haven Section of the American Chemical Society
- Member of International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR)
- 1986 Benoist Prize (awarded by the President of Switzerland, Mr. H. Egli)
- 1983 Gold Medal, Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, San Francisco, California
- 1962 Member of American Physical Society
- 1962 Ruzicka-Prize ETH-Z
