Richard R ErnstRichard R. Ernst is 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 Asociates, Palo Alto and the subsequent development of multi-dimensional NMR techniques. Ernst served as faculty at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, from which he is now retired. Ernst also is credited with many inventions and held several patents in his field. In addition to Ernst's Nobel prize, he is a foreign fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1993, and was awarded the John Gamble Kirkwood Medal in 1989, the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University in 1991, the Tadeus Reichstein Medal in 2000, and the Romanian National Medal in 2004. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Munich and University of Zurich. Ernst is member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board. Ernst is extremely interested and knowledgeable concerning Tibetan Buddhist art. He has studied non-destructive methods of learning the chemistry of the pigments that were using in their paintings. Read More Read Less