Fascinating Insights in Chemistry, Biology and Medicine by NMR and MRI
Dr. Richard Robert Ernst, Winner, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1991
Pioneer of NMR & MRI Technology
Case Western Reserve University and the Department of Biomedical Engineering proudly welcome Dr. Richard Robert Ernst to campus
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Rockefeller 301
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Born in Winterthur, Switzerland, Richard R. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier Transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy while at Varian Associates, Palo Alto and the subsequent development of multi-dimensional NMR techniques. These underpin applications of NMR both to chemistry (NMR spectroscopy) and to medicine (MRI). His refinements made NMR spectroscopy, which is an important technique of chemical analysis, up to 100 times more sensitive and has allowed the precise analysis of biological molecular structures.
Ernst received both his diploma in chemistry (1957) and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry (1962) from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Ernst also was credited with many inventions and held several patents in his field. He is member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board. This program is sponsored jointly by the Adamczyk Memorial Lecture Fund in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, as well as the Cleveland Center for Structural Biology and Case Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics.