The 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the German physical chemist Gerhard Ertl, Professor Emeritus at the Abteilung Physikalische Chemie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin “for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.” This article briefly discusses his life and career with an emphasis on his prize-winning research and its applications.
Adloff et al. (2007) studied this question.