Nobel Laureate Richard Ernst Will Lecture at U of M April 23
For release: Mar. 26, 2004
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Dr. Richard Ernst, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, will be the next speaker in the Marcus W. Orr Lecture Series at the University of Memphis. Ernst will discuss "The Responsibility of Academics in Our Time" at 3 p.m. April 23 in "The Zone" of the FedEx Institute of Technology.

Earlier that day, at 10 a.m., also in "The Zone," he will lecture to students and faculty in the sciences. His topic for that talk will be "NMR and its Nobel Glory: The Story of NMR Exemplified by the Contributions of at Least 13 Nobel Laureates."

Both of Ernst's lectures are open to the public.

Ernst received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1991 for his contributions to the development of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. His refinements made NMR spectroscopy, which is an important technique in chemical analysis, up to 100 times more sensitive, thus enabling scientists to make precise analyses of biological molecular structures.

Ernst received his diploma in chemistry in 1957 and his doctorate in technical sciences in 1962 from the ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. After five years with Varian Associates of Palo Alto, Calif., he returned to the ETH, where he became assistant professor in 1970, associate professor in 1972 and professor in 1976.
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