Gerhard Herzberg
The Honourable Gerhard Herzberg PC CC FRSC FRS | |
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Gerhard Herzberg, London 1952 | |
| Born | Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg December 25, 1904 Hamburg, Imperial Germany |
| Died | March 3, 1999 (aged 94) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | German |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Technische Universität Darmstadt |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | physical chemist |
| Institutions | Carleton University, National Research Council of Canada, University of Saskatchewan, University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Rau |
| Doctoral students | Takeshi Oka |
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] 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.
- ^ a b Stoicheff, B. P. (2003). "Gerhard Herzberg PC CC. 25 December 1904 - 3 March 1999". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 49: 179–195. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2003.0011. S2CID 72703418.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971". Nobel Media. Retrieved 2010-12-31.