Gerhard Herzberg

The Honourable Gerhard Herzberg PC CC FRSC FRS
Gerhard Herzberg, London 1952
Born	Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg December 25, 1904 Hamburg, Imperial Germany
Died	March 3, 1999(1999-03-03) (aged 94) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	German
Citizenship	Canadian
Alma mater	Technische Universität Darmstadt
Awards	FRS (1951)[1] Henry Marshall Tory Medal (1953) Centenary Prize (1958) Bakerian Medal (1960) Frederic Ives Medal (1964) Willard Gibbs Award (1969) Faraday Lectureship Prize (1970) Linus Pauling Award (1971) Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1971) Chemical Institute of Canada Medal (1972) Royal Medal (1971) (1972) Watts Lecture (1974) Earle K. Plyler Prize (1985)
Scientific career
Fields	physical chemist
Institutions	Carleton University, National Research Council of Canada, University of Saskatchewan, University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor	Hans Rau [de]
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.