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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]
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 Herzberg: 1971 1904–1999 "for his contributions to the knowledge of the electronic structure and geometry of molecules, especially free radicals" Ernst Otto Fischer: 1973 1917–2007 Research on organometallic sandwich complexes: Georg Wittig: 1979 1897–1987 Wittig Reaction: Deisenhofer: 1988 * 1943
Named for the Nobel laureate Gerhard Herzberg, it was formed in 1975 as part of the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. The NRC-HIA headquarters were moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1995 to the site of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. In 2012, the organization was restructured and renamed NRC Herzberg Astronomy ...
Otto Diels Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner. Gerhard Damköhler; Ludwig Darmstaedter; Heinrich Debus; Gero Decher; Max Delbrück; Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Delffs; Walter Dieckmann; Otto Diels
Gerhard Herzberg 1969 "For his outstanding contributions to physics and chemistry, especially in the field of atomic and molecular spectroscopy as exemplified by his work confirming the predictions of quantum electrodynamics, by his investigation of dissociation and pre dissociation phenomena, and by the publication of his life's work ...
Gerhard Herzberg – physicist and physical chemist born in Hamburg [5] David H. Hubel – Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist [6] Heinz Lehmann – psychiatrist, known for his use of chlorpromazine in treating schizophrenia [7] Walter Mandler – lens designer for ELCAN, pioneer in computer-aided design
Agnes M. Herzberg, Canadian statistician; Frederick Herzberg (1923–2000), American psychologist; Elaine Herzberg, killed as a pedestrian via an autonomous car; Gary Allan Herzberg, American country singer who goes by stage name Gary Allan; Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999), German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist