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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]
Walter Norman Haworth — Chemistry — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937; Stefan W. Hell — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 (affiliated with Heidelberg University but works at the Max-Planck Instiutute for Interdisciplinary Sciences at Göttingen formerly known as Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry) Heinrich Heesch — Mathematics
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 chemistry, bond order is a formal measure of the multiplicity of a covalent bond between two atoms. As introduced by Gerhard Herzberg, [1] building off of work by R. S. Mulliken and Friedrich Hund, bond order is defined as the difference between the numbers of electron pairs in bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals.
Awarded annually since 1951, it is given to "a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the science of chemistry or chemical engineering in Canada". [1] The medal is presented at the annual Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition or Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, at which the recipient gives a plenary lecture. [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.
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 ...
"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