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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]
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.
She was awarded Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) as per Government House of 29 December 2017. In 2020, she was the winner of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). [19] [12]
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 ...
In the years leading up to the 2001 Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal for Science and Engineering award, Schindler's research "demonstrated the cumulative impacts on boreal lake life of global warming, acidification and ozone depletion. Using long-term reference data collected at the ELA, he has shown that climate warming and drought have severe and ...
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]
This is a list of all known awards in Canada, conferred by either members of the royal family, viceroys, governments, or private organizations. National awards [ edit ]