The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced today that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 has been awarded to Gerhard Ertl, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces".
Ertl took part in the Adriatico Conference on "The Applications of Lasers in Surface Science", in August 1988.
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