Gerhard Herzberg

<p>Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, <a href="/facts/King%27s_Privy_Council_for_Canada/vFqAR79g">PC</a> <a href="/facts/Order_of_Canada/whrUUAHI">CC</a> <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Canada/80JypAJ7">FRSC</a> <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society/cWs8TdC5">FRS</a> (German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁt ˈhɛʁt͡sˌbɛʁk] ⓘ; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> and <a href="/facts/Physical_chemist/WqwnJjRM">physical chemist</a>, who won the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_for_Chemistry/8Nb8Ajjy">Nobel Prize for Chemistry</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Spectroscopy/mj71FuNK">spectroscopy</a>. He is well known for using these techniques that determine the structures of <a href="/facts/Diatomic/hkfKAC7m">diatomic</a> and <a href="/facts/Polyatomic/FcPWAyLm">polyatomic</a> molecules, including <a href="/facts/Free_radicals/qFymuVoT">free radicals</a> which are difficult to investigate in any other way, and for the chemical analysis of astronomical objects.  Herzberg served as Chancellor of <a href="/facts/Carleton_University/aQwyrPzt">Carleton University</a> in <a href="/facts/Ottawa/x5FkqX7F">Ottawa</a>, <a href="/facts/Canada/cWWFM8oc">Canada</a> from 1973 to 1980.
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Gerhard Herzberg