How Did Gerhard Ertl's Research Influence Modern Chemistry?

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2007/
"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"

Gerhard Ertl
(Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Berlin, Germany)http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2007/info.pdf (general)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2007/chemadv07.pdf (advanced)...and Happy Birthday! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ertl )

 

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At least a chemist won it this year. In the early 2000's it looked like the biologists had taken over!