Gerhard Ertl - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2007
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Gerhard Ertl

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2007
for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
Citizenship
GermanyGermany
Languages
German
date of birth
10/10/1936
place of birth
Stuttgart
Age
89 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • chemist
field of work
  • chemistry
educated at
  • University of Stuttgart
    • academic degree: Diplom
    • academic major: physics
    • end time: 1961
  • University of Stuttgart
    • academic major: physics
    • start time: 1955
    • end time: 1957
  • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
  • Technical University of Munich
    • academic degree: doctorate
    • end time: 1965
  • Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium
  • University of Paris
    • start time: 1957
    • end time: 1958
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • start time: 1958
    • end time: 1959
  • Leibniz University Hannover
employer
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Freie Universität Berlin
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Leibniz University Hannover
work location
  • Munich
member of
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2002
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1992
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1986
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2009
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2011
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2010
doctoral student
  • Peter Strasser
  • Jochen Lauterbach
  • Martin Wolf
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