Richard Robert Ernst:
Richard Robert Ernst is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
August 14, 1933 in Winterthur, Switzerland
Claim to Fame:
Ernest is a Swiss physical chemist who was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. He changed the radio frequency waves that previously were used in NMR with short, powerful pulses of energy. This process greatly improved the range and resolution of the device.
