Richard Ernst

Richard Robert Ernst (1933–2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and two-dimensional NMR techniques. His groundbreaking work underpinned applications in chemistry and medicine, including the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He was born and died in Winterthur, Switzerland, and spent much of his career at ETH Zurich.