"Unbelievable."
It was impossible to describe the feeling in Professor Gerhard Ertl's heart.
He was sitting in the director's office of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. He looked at the paper in his hand. Dumbfounded, he didn't speak for a while.
As the director of the Fritz Haber Institute and the 2007 Nobel Prize winner, he was in the field of theoretical chemistry and computational materials science, specifically in the field of solid surface chemistry. He was the first one to write a letter of recommendation to the Nobel Prize Committee.
Professor Klitzing had been sitting in this office for a long time. He was playing with the tea set on the coffee table. He raised his head and looked over.
"It seems you found something interesting."