Gerhard Ertl:
Gerhard Ertl is a German physical chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 10, 1936 in Bad Cannstatt, Germany
Claim to Fame:
Ertl is a German physical chemist who was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on chemical processes on solid surfaces. He studied the changes in a surface of a catalyst during a reaction. His techniques gave a new level of detail to the understanding of the process to synthesize ammonia and the oxidation of carbon monoxide.
