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I was fortunate to start my career in physical chemistry at a time when the development of the ultrahigh vacuum technique and of novel physical methods
enabled the study of processes on well-defined surfaces at an atomic scale.
These investigations included the mechanisms of heterogeneously catalyzed
reactions, such as CO oxidation and ammonia synthesis, and phenomena of
spatio-temporal self-organization, as described by the concepts of nonlinear
dynamics.
