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Gerhard Herzberg

1904 - 1999

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Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, (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". 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerhard Herzberg is the 186th most popular chemist (up from 209th in 2019), the 697th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,113th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular German Chemist.

Herzberg was a psychologist who studied the relationship between job satisfaction and job dissatisfaction. He found that there are two factors that lead to job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. The first is the intrinsic factors, which are things like the nature of the work, one's own capabilities, and the degree of responsibility. The second is the extrinsic factors, which are things like pay, working conditions, and supervision.

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Among chemists, Gerhard Herzberg ranks 186 out of 602. Before him are Peter J. Ratcliffe, Marcellin Berthelot, Ernest Solvay, Charles Adolphe Wurtz, Fritz Albert Lipmann, and Sidney Altman. After him are Robert Huber, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, Thomas A. Steitz, Peter D. Mitchell, Richard R. Schrock, and Aaron Klug.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Gerhard Herzberg ranks 31. Before him are John Hicks, Joan Crawford, Ernst Mayr, Hans Albert Einstein, Werner Forssmann, and Alejo Carpentier. After him are Hans Morgenthau, Witold Gombrowicz, Glenn Miller, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Luis Carrero Blanco, and Antonín Novotný. Among people deceased in 1999, Gerhard Herzberg ranks 27. Before him are Glenn T. Seaborg, Wilt Chamberlain, Georgios Papadopoulos, Joe DiMaggio, Trygve Haavelmo, and Oliver Reed. After him are Julius Nyerere, Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Grotowski, Daniel Nathans, Akio Morita, and Mary Ainsworth.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerhard Herzberg ranks 697 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), Otto Günsche (1917), Widukind (755), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), Curd Jürgens (1915), and Rudi Völler (1960). After him are John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503), Erich Mielke (1907), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Robert Huber (1937), Walter Hallstein (1901), and Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Gerhard Herzberg ranks 33. Before him are Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604), Hermann Kolbe (1818), Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743), Feodor Lynen (1911), Georg Wittig (1897), and Felix Hoffmann (1868). After him are Robert Huber (1937), Johann Deisenhofer (1943), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Joachim Frank (1940), Hartmut Michel (1948), and August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818).

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