German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904–1999)
The Honourable
Gerhard Herzberg
PC CC FRSC FRS
Gerhard Herzberg, London 1952
Born
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg
December 25, 1904
Hamburg, Imperial Germany
Died
March 3, 1999(1999-03-03) (aged 94)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality
German
Citizenship
Canadian
Alma mater
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Awards
FRS (1951)[1]
Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1953)
Centenary Prize (1958)
Bakerian Medal (1960)
Frederic Ives Medal (1964)
Willard Gibbs Award (1969)
Faraday Lectureship Prize (1970)
Linus Pauling Award (1971)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1971)
Chemical Institute of Canada Medal (1972)
Royal Medal (1971)(1972)
Watts Lecture (1974)
Earle K. Plyler Prize (1985)
Scientific career
Fields
physical chemist
Institutions
Carleton University, National Research Council of Canada, University of Saskatchewan, University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor
Hans Rau [de]
Doctoral students
Takeshi Oka
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, PC CC FRSC FRS[1] (German:[ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁtˈhɛʁt͡sˌbɛʁk]ⓘ; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals".[2] Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy. He is well known for using these techniques that determine the structures of diatomic and polyatomic molecules, including free radicals which are difficult to investigate in any other way, and for the chemical analysis of astronomical objects. Herzberg served as Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada from 1973 to 1980.
^ abStoicheff, B. P. (2003). "Gerhard Herzberg PC CC. 25 December 1904 - 3 March 1999". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 49: 179–195. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2003.0011. S2CID 72703418.
^"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971". Nobel Media. Retrieved 2010-12-31.
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, PC CC FRSC FRS (German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁt ˈhɛʁt͡sˌbɛʁk] ; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian...
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including 33 honorary degrees, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the GerhardHerzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. Outside his scientific...
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the 2012 GerhardHerzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, the highest honor for scientists and engineers in Canada. The Herzberg Medal is...
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and Career Information Centre. The building is named in honour of GerhardHerzberg, a pioneering German Canadian physicist and physical chemist who won...
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the Inaugural Governor General's Innovation Award (2016) and the GerhardHerzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (2017). Dal battery researcher...
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received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Saskatchewan. GerhardHerzberg was his MA thesis advisor. During World War II, Douglas interrupted...
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