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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]
Herzberg was honoured with memberships or fellowships by a very large number of scientific societies, received many awards and honorary degrees in different countries. The NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering , Canada's highest research award, was named in his honour in 2000.
Among over 100 awards and fellowships, [2] Smol is the recipient of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, [15] given by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [16] to honour Canada's top scientist or engineer.
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 ...
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]
Highly honoured, [16] Hochachka was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983. [17] He was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal in 1990. [18]Hochachka was awarded the Canada Council Killam Memorial Prize in Science in 1993 and the NSERC Gold Medal for Science and Engineering in 1995 (now the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering). [19]
He was presented with the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering in 1994, [6] and the Albert Caquot Award in 2001. [7] He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada on May 1, 2002 for a lifetime of achievement.