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A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.
Richard Ernst / Chemist
Art
Asian
Insatiable
Nepal
Brief
Visit
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On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.
Richard Ernst / Chemist
Concerned
Resonance
Sides
Theoretical
Side
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Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.
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Chemist
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My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
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Architect
Father
School
Teaching
Robert
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I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.
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Chemicals
Experiments
Process
Secret
Chemical
Processes
Secrets
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I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.
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Jobs
Decided
Forever
University
Usa
Industrial
Thus
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I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
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Active
Involvement
Management
Research
Teaching
Depend
Functions
Recognized
Scientists
Vitally
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In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.
Richard Ernst / Chemist
Administrative
Council
My Time
President
Research
Years
Time Work I Am
Absorb
Work Time I Am
More And More
Recent
Recent Years
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Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
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Famous
Technology
Chemistry
Enthusiasm
Finishing
High Expectations
Institute
School
Study
Swiss
Zurich
Thus
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I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.
Richard Ernst / Chemist
Careers
Footsteps
Intention
Second Chance
Trying
Although
No Intention
Repeat
Surprised
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Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date and authoritatively written introduction for students and practitioners of NMR.
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Literature
Needs
Real
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I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.
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Air
Explosions
Fascinated
Frightening
House
Parent
Poisoning
Reactions
Unbearable
Immediately
Leading
Possibilities
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Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.
Richard Ernst / Chemist
Artist
Believe
Experiments
Feelings
Finished
Rope
Spectators
Thesis
Usefulness
Anyway
Did
Attempted
Balancing
Interested
Concept
High
Feeling
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However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.
Richard Ernst / Chemist
Home
Book
Chemistry
Hands
Library
Survived
Extensive
Provide
Reliable
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