Gerhard Ertl
German physicist
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He mapped what happens when molecules meet metal — the choreography of atoms at surfaces that explains rust, catalytic converters, and the chemistry killing the ozone layer.
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Gerhard Ertl was born in Germany on 10 October 1936 and became a physicist studying something most chemists ignored: reactions happening not in flasks but on solid surfaces. Working at the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin, he built the methodological foundation of modern surface chemistry, providing the first detailed descriptions of how chemical processes unfold when molecules collide with metal and crystal planes. The work had reach: it explained how fuel cells generate clean energy, how catalytic converters scrub car exhaust, why iron corrodes, and even how ozone destruction proceeds on ice c…
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