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...Royal Swedish Academy yesterday awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Richard R. Ernst of Switzerland and the Nobel Prize in Physics to Pierre-Gilles de Gennes of France...
...Ernst, 58, was flying from Moscow to New York to receive the Columbia University Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for outstanding research in biochemistry when he was informed of the Academy's decision...
...announcement, the Academy cited Ernst's contributions to the development of high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy...
...spectroscopy is a means of determining the structure of molecules in solutions and investigating their motion. It has, according to Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, "become a standard instrumental measuring tool within chemistry, thanks to Ernst's developments...
...cannot make as strong a case for the late as for the early Ernst. Some of the sculpture of his post-1939 years was remarkable -- especially the big totemic Capricorn, 1948 -- but his apocalyptic paintings, like the vision of creepy, fungal disaster recorded in Europe After the Rain, 1940-42, look like sci-fi cliche. By the '50s he was thinking illustratively rather than pictorially. To some extent he always had, but now the visions were more diffuse, and the paintings of his last decade (he died in 1976) are feebly hermetic. No matter. He was always a painter...