The chemist Richard R. Ernst died at the age of 87. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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Physical chemist who received the 1991 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of multi-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. He was a professor at ETH Zurich, a university in Switzerland.
He had three children, Anna, Katharina, and Hans-Martin, with wife, Magdalena.