Gerhard Herzberg Biography - Nobel Prize Winner (1971)

Gerhard Herzberg, PC , CC , D.Sc , LL.D , FRSC , FRS (December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a pioneering theoretical chemist and physicist. Born in Germany, he fled to Canada in 1935, where he continued his distinguished scientific career.

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 difficult to investigate in any other way, and for the chemical analysis of astronomical objects.

 

LIST OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS IN CHEMISTRY PART II.

Grignard Victor

Grubbs Robert H

Haber Fritz

Hahn Otto

Harden Sir Arthur

Hassel Odd

Hauptman Herbert

Sir Walter Norman Haworth

Heeger Alan

Hershko Avram

Herschbach Dudley

Herzberg Gerhard

Heyrovsky Jaroslav

Hinshelwood Sir Cyril Norman

Hodgkin Dorothy Crowfoot

Hoff Jacobus Henricus

Hoffmann Roald

Huber Robert

Joliot-Curie Irene

Joliot Frederic

Karle Jerome

Karrer Paul

Kendrew Sir John Cowdery

Klug Sir Aaron

Knowles William

Kohn Walter

Kroto Sir Harold

Kuhn Richard

Langmuir Irving

Lee Yuan

Lehn Jean-Marie

Leloir Luis

Libby Willard Frank

Lipscomb William

MacDiarmid Alan G

MacKinnon Roderick

Marcus Rudolph A

Martin Archer John Porter

McMillan Edwin Mattison

Merrifield Robert Bruce

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