Chemist

Richard R. Ernst

Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate

1933 - 2021

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His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2024). Richard R. Ernst is the 132nd most popular chemist (down from 107th in 2024), the 56th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 67th 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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Richard R. Ernst ranks #56 among 1,198 people in Pantheon born in Switzerland, inside the top 5% of that group.

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Among Chemists

Among chemists, Richard R. Ernst ranks 132 out of 610. 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 56 out of 1,198. 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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