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

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A man who knows all about women, in fact he doesn't know even a woman.

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Ideas are like rabitts, take one pair, lear how to breed them and soon you will have a dozen.

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The necessity is the impulse towards an idea and idea is the impulse towards the actiune.

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A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

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At the age of 13, I found in the attic a case filled with chemicals, remainders of an uncle who died in 1923 and was, as a metallurgical engineer, interested in chemistry and photography.

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During my last years at Varian (1966-68), we developed numerous computer applications in spectroscopy for automated experiments and improved data processing.

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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.

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Finally in the summer of 1974, we tried our first experiments in desperate need of results to be presented at the VIth International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Kandersteg, 1974.

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From then on, the development of multi-dimensional spectroscopy went very fast, inside and outside of our research group.

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However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

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I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

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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.

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I had the great luck to grow up, together with two sisters, in a town that combined in a unique way artistic and industrious activities.

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I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

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I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

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

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In parallel, we developed the theoretical background for the experiments we had in mind as well as for the optimum performance of the instruments.

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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.

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Invaluable art collections and a small but first rank symphony orchestra carry the fame of Winterthur far across the borders of Switzerland.

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