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

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Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

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On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

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

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

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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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Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

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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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