Gerhard Ertl

Awards

1. 1992

   Japan Prize — Science and Technology of Material Interfaces

   CS

   for the contributions to the new development of the chemistry and physics of solid surfaces.

2. 1998

   Wolf Prize — Chemistry

   Chemistry

   for their outstanding contributions to the field of the surface science in general, and for their elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surfaces in particular.

3. 2007

   Nobel Prize — Chemistry

   Chemistry

   for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces