Richard Ernst (1933-2021)

Abstract

Richard Ernst, pioneer of NMR spectroscopy and Nobel prize winner for chemistry, passed away on June 4th 2021 in his home town of Winterthur. He was among the developers of Fourier transform NMR spectroscopy, and later extended this to two- and higher-dimensional NMR spectroscopy. His work laid the foundations for present-day use of NMR spectroscopy as a universal tool to investigate materials and chemically or biologically relevant molecules.