Richard R. Ernst
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Richard R. Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the development of high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard R. Ernst canonical | 3 |
| Richard Ernst | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1128406 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard R. Ernst Context triple: [Davy Medal, notableRecipient, Richard R. Ernst]
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Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
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B.
Felix Bloch
Felix Bloch was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and solid-state physics.
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C.
Dudley R. Herschbach
Dudley R. Herschbach is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in molecular beam experiments that advanced the understanding of chemical reaction dynamics.
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D.
Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as the “father of femtochemistry” for his pioneering work using ultrafast lasers to observe chemical reactions in real time.
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E.
Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg was a German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist renowned for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard R. Ernst Target entity description: Richard R. Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the development of high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
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A.
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
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B.
Felix Bloch
Felix Bloch was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and solid-state physics.
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C.
Dudley R. Herschbach
Dudley R. Herschbach is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in molecular beam experiments that advanced the understanding of chemical reaction dynamics.
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D.
Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as the “father of femtochemistry” for his pioneering work using ultrafast lasers to observe chemical reactions in real time.
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E.
Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg was a German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist renowned for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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Swiss scientist ⓘ chemist ⓘ human ⓘ physical chemist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Honorary doctorates from multiple universities
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John Gamble Kirkwood Medal ⓘ Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize ⓘ Marcel Benoist Prize ⓘ Nobel Prize in Chemistry (through its scientists) ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Otto Hahn Prize ⓘ Wolf Prize in Chemistry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-08-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-06-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| employer | ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| familyName | Ernst ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
magnetic resonance
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nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ⓘ physical chemistry ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
research scientist
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university professor ⓘ |
| influenced |
applications of NMR in chemistry and biology
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development of modern NMR spectroscopy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Fourier transform NMR
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development of high-resolution NMR spectroscopy ⓘ pulsed NMR techniques ⓘ two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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German ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academia Europaea
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Pontifical Academy of Sciences ⓘ Swiss Academy of Sciences ⓘ National Academy of Sciences ⓘ
surface form:
US National Academy of Sciences
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| name | Richard R. Ernst self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Swiss ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeCategory | Chemistry ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeMotivation | for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ⓘ |
| nobelPrizeYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Kurt Wüthrich ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Winterthur, Switzerland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Winterthur, Switzerland ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Physical Chemistry at ETH Zurich ⓘ |
| religionOrWorldview | Protestant background ⓘ |
| residence |
Zurich
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surface form:
Zurich, Switzerland
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workplace | ETH Zurich ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Richard R. Ernst Description of subject: Richard R. Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering contributions to the development of high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
ETH Zurich
this entity surface form:
Richard Ernst