Gerhard Ertl

Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist, chemist, and university teacher born in Stuttgart on October 10, 1936. He has worked in Munich and holds citizenship in Germany. Ertl is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences. His academic career includes positions at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Leibniz University Hannover, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Freie Universität Berlin.

Ertl received his education at the University of Stuttgart, University of Paris, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Technical University of Munich, where his doctoral advisor was Heinz Gerischer. He has been recognized with the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, the Faraday Lectureship Prize, the Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His published works include *Engineering of Chemical Complexity II*, *Engineering of Chemical Complexity*, *Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis*, *Environmental Catalysis*, and *Reactions at Solid Surfaces*.