Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Gerhard Ertl: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Facts

Born October 10, 1936 (age 90) • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2007)
Subjects Of Study ammonia • Haber-Bosch process

Photos

Ertl, Gerhard
See All Images →
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Carl Bosch
Carl Bosch
German chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Ziegler
Karl Ziegler
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
German chemist
default image
Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist
Hell, Stefan
Stefan Hell
Romanian-born German chemist
Hermann Staudinger.
Hermann Staudinger
German chemist
Butenandt, Adolf
Adolf Butenandt
German biochemist
default image
Benjamin List
German chemist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
default image
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
default image
Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
default image
Hans Fischer
German biochemist
Wallach
Otto Wallach
German chemist
default image
Robert Huber
German biochemist

Related Quizzes

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science