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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]
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 ...
Herzberg is a German surname originating in Germany meaning "heart mountain". Notable people with the surname include: 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 ...
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 – 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
Most notably, Gerhard Herzberg, the 1971 Nobel laureate in chemistry, was dismissed from TU Darmstadt in 1934 because his wife was Jewish and emigrated with his family to Canada. [30] On the night of 11/12 September 1944, eighty per cent of the city, including many of the university's buildings, were destroyed during a bomb attack.
Gerhard Herzberg: 1904 1999 June 28, 1968 November 12, 1968 Angela Hewitt: 1958 December 30, 2015 May 8, 2019 Henry Hicks: 1915 1990 June 26, 1970 October 28, 1970 Geoffrey Hinton: 1947 December 27, 2018 December 16, 2020 Lotta Hitschmanova: 1909 1990 December 17, 1979 October 15, 1980 Gerda Hnatyshyn: 1935 2023 January 10, 1990 January 29, 1990
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