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complete name:	Gerhard Ertl
nobel prize:	chemistry
award year:	2007
prize share:	Prize share: 1/1
rational:	The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 was awarded to Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces."
biography:	Biography
laureate facts:	Facts
laureate lecture:	Lecture
given name:	Gerhard
family name:	Ertl
occupation:	physicist
occupation:	chemist
occupation:	university teacher
field of work:	chemistry
work location:	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Landshut, Germany
description:	Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. Ertl’s research laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry, which has helped explain how fuel cells produce energy without pollution, how catalytic converters clean up car exhausts and even why iron rusts, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. His work has paved the way for development of cleaner energy sources and will guide the development of fuel cells, said Astrid Graslund, secretary of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces. The Nobel academy said Ertl provided a detailed description of how chemical reactions take place on surfaces. His findings applied in both academic studies and industrial development, the academy said. “Surface chemistry can even explain the destruction of the ozone layer, as vital steps in the reaction actually take place on the surfaces of small crystals of ice in the stratosphere,” the award citation reads.
image copyright:	© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan
image citation:	The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2007/summary/>
date birth:	1936
usual name:	Gerhard Ertl