My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

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.

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.

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.