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NSERC's Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering was first awarded in 1991 to Raymond Lemieux, a chemist working at University of Alberta. [6] Mathematician James Arthur from the University of Toronto was the 1999 recipient, [7] the last year before the award was renamed in honour of Gerhard Herzberg, the winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [2]
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, PC CC FRSC FRS [1] (German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁt ˈhɛʁt͡sˌbɛʁk] ⓘ; 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]
The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal in Science and Engineering Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2011; Killam Prize in Natural Science Canada Council for the Arts, 2012; W. A. Johnston Award from the Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA), 2018; Gold Medal and Fellow of the International Union of Geodesy and ...
He was awarded the 2011 Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. [72] In 2012, he received the Canada Council Killam Prize in Engineering. In 2013, Hinton was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Université de Sherbrooke .
2016: Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, the first woman to receive this prize. [22] [23] 2016: Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's second highest civilian honour. [24] 2017: Fonds de recherche du Québec, Prix d’excellence [25]
In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2000, he was awarded the first Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, Canada's highest research honour in the field. In 2014, he was made a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. [2] He was elevated to a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2020 ...
2006 Killam Prize (Canada Council for the Arts) [2] 2006 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (American Physical Society) [2] [3] 2008 John C. Polanyi Award [8] 2009 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering [1] [9] 2010 Fellow of The Optical Society [10]
Awarded by Award Created For Monarch of Canada: King's Gold Medal for Poetry: 1933 Outstanding book of verse Queen Elizabeth II Cup: Show jumping championship [1]: King's Plate