Richard R. Ernst
Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate (1933–2021)
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Lived 1933–2021, aged 88Switzerland
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Updated 2026-06-09
He called himself a "tool-maker," but the tools were Fourier transform NMR spectroscopy and the physics that made MRI possible — work that won him the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and reshaped how we see molecules and the human body.
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Richard Robert Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist born 14 August 1933. While working at Varian Associates and later at ETH Zurich, he developed the techniques underpinning Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy — advances that revolutionized chemical analysis and laid the groundwork for magnetic resonance imaging in medicine. The Nobel committee awarded him the Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for those contributions. He died 4 June 2021, having spent a career building instruments that let others see what had been invisible.
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