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==Awards and honours== [[File:Science and Peace - Richard Ernst.webm|thumb|left|Richard R. Ernst, UNESCO 2011]] Ernst was a foreign fellow of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (elected 2002),<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.akadeemia.ee/en/membership/abc/| title = Estonian Academy of Sciences, Membership| access-date = 15 September 2017| archive-date = 3 March 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120303115841/http://www.akadeemia.ee/en/membership/abc/| url-status = dead}}</ref> the [[US National Academy of Sciences]], the [[Royal Society|Royal Academy of Sciences]], [[London]], the [[German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]], the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]], the [[Korean Academy of Science and Technology]] and [[Bangladesh Academy of Sciences]].<ref>[http://www.bas.org.bd/list-of-fellows/userslist.html List of Fellows of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415000333/http://www.bas.org.bd/list-of-fellows/userslist.html |date=15 April 2010 }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title= Richard R. Ernst|url= https://ssnmr.ethz.ch/the-group/people/person-detail.html?persid=77857|language=en|access-date=10 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Rooney|first=Terrie M.|title=Contemporary authors. V. 158|date=1998|publisher=Gale|others=Peacock, Scot.|isbn=0-7876-1185-9|location=Detroit|pages=114|oclc=37926306}}</ref> He was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1993|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1993]].<ref name=formemrs/> He was awarded the [[John Gamble Kirkwood]] Medal in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kirkwood Award |url=https://www.acsnewhaven.org/Kirkwood-award |website=ACS New Haven |access-date=17 January 2020}}</ref> In 1991, Ernst was on an aeroplane flying over the Atlantic when he discovered he had been awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was invited into the cockpit, where he was given a radio to talk to the Nobel committee. Here they told him he was being honoured "for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy".<ref name=":2" /><ref>"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 10 November 2015. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1991/></ref> Ernst was a member of the World Knowledge Dialogue Scientific Board. He was awarded the [[Marcel Benoist Prize]] in 1986, the [[Wolf Prize in Chemistry]] in 1991,<ref name=Swissinfo>{{cite news|title=Richard Ernst, father of the MRI, dies aged 87|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/richard-ernst--father-of-the-mri--dies-aged-87/46687642|date=8 June 2021|access-date=8 June 2021|publisher=Swissinfo}}</ref> and [[Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize]] of [[Columbia University]] in 1991.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/horwitz/| title = The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize| date = 11 November 2022}}</ref> He was also awarded the [[Tadeusz Reichstein|Tadeus Reichstein]] Medal in 2000<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.saphw.ch/en/awards/reichstein-medal|title=Reichstein Medal {{!}} Swiss Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences SAPhS|website=www.saphw.ch|language=en|access-date=2 April 2017}}</ref> and the [[Order of the Star of Romania]] in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://legislatie.just.ro/Public/DetaliiDocument/49281 | title=DECRET 18 16/01/2004 – Portal Legislativ}}</ref> He also held [[Honorary degree|Honorary Doctorates]] from the [[Technical University of Munich]], [[École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne|EPF Lausanne]], [[University of Zurich]], [[University of Antwerp|University Antwerpen]], [[Babeș-Bolyai University|Babes-Bolyai University]], and [[University of Montpellier|University Montpellier]].<ref name=":1" /> The 2009 [[Bel Air Film Festival]] featured the [[world premiere]] of a [[documentary film]] on Ernst ''Science Plus Dharma Equals Social Responsibility''. Produced by [[Carlo Burton]], the film takes place in Ernst's hometown in Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vimooz.com/festivalticker/2009/10/2nd-annual-bel-air-film-festival-announces-line-up-and-honorees/|title=Film Festival Ticker|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091111032333/http://www.vimooz.com/festivalticker/2009/10/2nd-annual-bel-air-film-festival-announces-line-up-and-honorees/|archive-date=11 November 2009}}</ref> In 2022, another movie about Richard R. Ernst premiered at the Cameo cinema in Winterthur, produced by Lukas Schwarzenbacher and Susanne Schmid. The documentary contains a retrospective of Richard R. Ernsts life, which was filmed only a few months before his death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lebensbilanz von Nobelpreisträger auf Film festgehalten |url=https://84xo.ch/kultur/lebensbilanz-eines-nobelpreistraegers-filmisch-festgehalten |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=84XO |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131191643/https://84xo.ch/kultur/lebensbilanz-eines-nobelpreistraegers-filmisch-festgehalten |archive-date=31 January 2022 |language=de}}</ref>
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