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Gerhard Ertl (born 10 October, 1936) is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. He won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Ertl was born in Stuttgart, Germany where he would later study physics from 1955 to 1957 at the Technical University of Stuttgart and then at the University of Paris (1957-1958) and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1958-1959). He completed his Diplom in... full article at wikipedia
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  • Oct 10, 1936
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  • 2007
  • "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
  • 1998
  • for "their outstanding contributions to the field of the surface science in general and for their elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surface in particular."
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