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Chemistry Nobel makes a great birthday gift
Solid-surface chemist wins plaudit on seventy-first birthday.
Tonight is going to see an extremely happy party thrown for Gerhard Ertl.
Not only is it his seventy-first birthday, but he has also won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his “studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces”.
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Well done Dr.Gerhard. It is a great news for the chemistry people because a chemist getting a noble prize for Chemistry. In recent years, the Nobel prizes are awarded like a cross-posting. Fortunately, this time not happened. Thanks for the award selection committee, this time they have considered as Chemistry Prize for Chemist. M.Sivakumar, Japan.
Yeah,good job. This is a real noble prize for chemistry.
Many congratulations to Dr. Gerhard for the great achievement in Science for his outstanding work
It makes a great contribution to the development of chemistry!