Gerhard Herzberg
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1971for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals
- Citizenship
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Nazi Germany 
Canada 
Germany - Languages
- English, German
- date of birth
- 12/25/1904
- place of birth
- Hamburg
- date of death
- 3/3/1999
- place of death
- Ottawa
- Lived
- 94 years
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- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1968
- Japan Academy
- start time: 10/12/1976
- Board of Governors of Carleton University
- start time: 1973
- end time: 1980
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 3/15/1951
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Royal Society of Canada
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- position held
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- Chancellor of Carleton University
- start time: 1973
- end time: 1980
- Chancellor of Carleton University
- occupation
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- physical chemist
- physicist
- chemist
- university teacher
- astronomer
- employer
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- Yerkes Observatory
- Cornell University
- University of Bristol
- University of Chicago
- Technical University of Darmstadt
- University of Göttingen
- National Research Council Canada
- University of Saskatchewan
- educated at
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- Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums
- Technical University of Darmstadt
- University of Göttingen
- field of work
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- physical chemistry
- chemistry
- physics
- molecular spectroscopy
- atomic spectroscopy