Chemistry Nobel laureate Richard Ernst dies at 87
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Rebecca Trager2021-06-09T13:30:00
Tributes paid to NMR spectroscopy pioneer credited with laying the foundations for the development of MRI
Swiss physical chemist Richard Ernst, who received the 1991 chemistry Nobel prize for his contributions to the development of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, died at the age of 87 on 4 June. The International Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Society tweeted on 8 June that it was ‘mourning a loss of a giant of magnetic resonance’.