Authorised form of name | Herzberg; Gerhard (1904 - 1999) |
Dates | 1904 - 1999 |
Date of birth | 25/12/1904 |
Date of death | 03/03/1999 |
Activity | Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1971 Honours: CC 1968; PC 1992 |
Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 15/03/1951 |
Age at election | 46 |
RSActivity | Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1971 Lectures: Bakerian 1960 |
Source | References: Digby J McLaren, review of M Christine King, E W R Steacie and Science in Canada in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 124-126 B Thrush, 'Mr Spectroscopy. Gerhard Herzberg: an illustrious life in science by B Stoicheff' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 351 - 352 A Cook, 'Report. Migrants to The Royal Society, 1930-1940' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 303 - 304 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2003 vol 49 pp 179-196, plate, by Boris P Stoicheff |
Code | NA679 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1951/09 | Herzberg, Gerhard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
PB/9/1/101/4 | Royal Society correspondence | 1962, 1966 |
HWT/41/3/5 | Continuing correspondence regarding membership | January - July 1967 |
HWT/41/2/10 | Correspondence regarding 'Multilingual Dictionary of Important Terms in Molecular Spectroscopy' etc | April - June 1966 |
IM/002068 | Herzberg, Gerhard | nd |
RR/53/109 | Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'Absorption bands of HCN in the photographic infra-red' by Gerhard Herzberg and J W T Spinks | [July 1934] |
HWT/41/3/6 | Correspondence and papers regarding the effect on spectroscopy of the adoption of the international system of units (SI System) | January - June 1968 |
PB/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 1956 |
RR/53/110 | Referee's report by Robert Robertson, on a paper 'Absorption bands of HCN in the photographic infra-red' by Gerhard Herzberg and J W T Spinks | 3 August 1934 |