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Gerhard Herzberg
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German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904-1999)
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Gerhard Herzberg was a male physicist, chemist, and astronomer who also worked as a university teacher. Born in Hamburg on December 25, 1904, he held citizenship in Germany, Nazi Germany, and Canada. He spoke and wrote in German and English, with German as his native language. His professional interests included physics, and he worked in the fields of physical chemistry, physics, chemistry, and atomic spectroscopy. He was an agnostic.
Herzberg received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Royal Medal, the Faraday Lectureship Prize, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. He was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums, the University of Göttingen, and the Technical University of Darmstadt. His employers included the Technical University of Darmstadt, Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Bristol. He resided in Darmstadt and died in Ottawa on March 3, 1999.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1971
“for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gerhard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nazi Germany
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- Ottawa
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums
- Employer
- Yerkes Observatory
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- German
- Religion
- agnosticism
- Field of work
- molecular spectroscopy
- Image
- Herzberg,Gerhard 1952 London.jpg
- Residence
- Darmstadt
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- member of
- Japan Academy
- Commons category
- Gerhard Herzberg
- date of death
- 1999-03-03
- date of birth
- 1904-12-25
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- name in native language
- Gerhard Herzberg
- P8168
- Chetfalva
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, PC CC FRSC FRS ( 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". 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.
Early life and family
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