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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]
Otto Diels Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner. Gerhard Damköhler; Ludwig Darmstaedter; Heinrich Debus; Gero Decher; Max Delbrück; Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Delffs; Walter Dieckmann; Otto Diels
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]
In 2015, Becke was awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. [4] Part of the funds from this award were used to establish was the Herzberg–Becke Chair in Theoretical Chemistry at Dalhousie University, which is currently held by Erin Johnson, one of his former Ph.D. students.
In 2007, Polanyi was awarded the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. [22] The Royal Society of Chemistry honoured Polanyi as their 2010 Faraday Lectureship Prize. [23] Polanyi has received many honorary degrees from 25 institutions, including Waterloo in 1970, Harvard University in 1982, Ottawa in 1987, and Queen's ...
Founding of Polymer Chemistry: Karl Ziegler: 1963 1898–1973 Discoveries in the field of Polymers: Manfred Eigen: 1967 1927–2019 Measurement of the rates of fast chemical reactions Gerhard Herzberg: 1971 1904–1999 "for his contributions to the knowledge of the electronic structure and geometry of molecules, especially free radicals" Ernst ...
"for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry" [69] Odd Hassel (1897–1981) Norwegian 1970 Luis F. Leloir (1906–1987) Argentine "for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates" [70] 1971 Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999) West German Canadian
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. [3]