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Gerhard Ertl

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 2007
for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
Citizenship
Germany Germany
Languages
German
date of birth
10/10/1936
place of birth
Stuttgart
Age
89 years
educated at
  • University of Stuttgart
    • academic major: physics
    • end time: 1/1/1957
    • start time: 1/1/1955
  • University of Stuttgart
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: Diplom
    • end time: 1/1/1961
  • Technical University of Munich
    • academic degree: doctorate
    • end time: 1/1/1965
  • University of Paris
    • end time: 1/1/1958
    • start time: 1/1/1957
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • end time: 1/1/1959
    • start time: 1/1/1958
  • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
  • Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium
  • Leibniz University Hannover
member of
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1/1/1986
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/2002
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1/1/1992
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/2010
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/2011
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/2009
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts
  • Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
work location
  • Munich
employer
  • Freie Universität Berlin
  • Leibniz University Hannover
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
doctoral student
  • Martin Wolf
  • Jochen Lauterbach
  • Peter Strasser
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
field of work
  • chemistry
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