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.

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.

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

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

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.

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.

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