Gerhard Ertl certainly had cause to celebrate on his 71st birthday. Along with gifts and warm regards, Ertl received the news that he'd been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his ...

His work laid the foundation for the modern field of surface chemistry, and had important implications for understanding processes such as how catalytic converters clean up car exhaust, how the ozone ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - German Gerhard Ertl won the Nobel Prize for chemistry on his 71st birthday on Wednesday for inventing ways to watch chemicals react on a surface, helping in the development of ...

(Reuters) - German scientist Gerhard Ertl, who celebrated his 71st birthday on Wednesday, won the 2007 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his surface chemistry work, the Nobel chemistry panel at the ...