October 10, 2016

Former postdoc Kalle Ernst helped with 2016 Nobel Prize

Former group postdoc Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Ernst (nicknamed “Kalle”) helped contribute to this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry that went to Ben Feringa and others.  Ernst is the other senior co-author on Feringa’s seminal paper “Electrically driven directional motion of a four-wheeled molecule on a metal surface” which was published Nov 2011 in Nature. Ernst and his group supplied the exceptional scanning tunneling microscope images of the motion of this “molecular car” shown in that report. Way to go, Kalle!! Ernst was interviewed about his contributions by media in Zurich, Switzerland where he now lives.