Sunday, February 21, 2010

Pope appoints German Nobel prize winner to Vatican science academy

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed German chemical physicist and 2007 Nobel prize laurate for Chemistry, Gerhard Ertl, as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Vatican said Saturday.

The 73-year-old Stuttgart-born Ertl, is a professor at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin.

Ertl was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has its roots in the Academy of the Lincei which was founded in Rome in 1603 as the first exclusively scientific academy in the world, according to the Vatican.

The work of the academy focuses on six major areas: Fundamental science, Science and technology of global problems, Science for the problems of the Third World; Scientific policy, Bioethics, and Epistemology.
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