Gerhard Herzberg
German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904-1999) · Canada · Scientists · Died at 94
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Something wrong?Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, 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".
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Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, 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". Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy. He is well known for using these techniques that determine the structures of diatomic and polyatomic molecules, including free radicals which are difficult to investigate in any other way, and for the chemical analysis of astronomical objects. Herzberg served as Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada from 1973 to 1980.
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John PolanyiBoth received Chemical Institute of Canada Medal
William E. MoernerBoth received Earle K. Plyler PrizeW. T. TutteBoth received Henry Marshall Tory Medal
Dudley R. HerschbachBoth received Linus Pauling Award
Edwin H. LandBoth received Frederic Ives Medal
George PorterBoth received Faraday Lectureship PrizeFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.