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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard R. Ernst has received more than 192,522 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Richard R. Ernst is the 119th most popular chemist (up from 164th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 105th 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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  • 63.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard R. Ernst ranks 119 out of 509. Before him are Stanford Moore, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, Leopold Ružička, Avram Hershko, John Macleod, and Casimir Funk. After him are William Howard Stein, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Lars Onsager, Georg Ernst Stahl, Johan Gadolin, and Glenn T. Seaborg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Richard R. Ernst ranks 45. Before him are Gian Maria Volonté, Bernardo Provenzano, Gene Wilder, Quincy Jones, Jerzy Grotowski, and Paul J. Crutzen. After him are Jayne Mansfield, Samora Machel, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, John Gurdon, Horst Buchholz, and Willie Nelson. Among people deceased in 2021, Richard R. Ernst ranks 46. Before him are Carlos Reutemann, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Paul J. Crutzen, Lina Wertmüller, Jean-Pierre Adams, and Dušan Ivković. After him are Jean-Luc Nancy, Vicente Fernández, Phil Spector, Hissène Habré, Abdelkader Bensalah, and Isamu Akasaki.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Richard R. Ernst ranks 70 out of 876. Before him are Alexandre Yersin (1863), Max Frisch (1911), Alisha Lehmann (23), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), Roger Federer (1981), and Peter Zumthor (1943). After him are Siegfried Wagner (1869), Domenico Fontana (1543), Lys Assia (1924), Félix Vallotton (1865), Daniel Bovet (1907), and Niklaus Wirth (1934).

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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), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Marc Delafontaine (1838).

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