biography
pronunciation:
[hertsberg]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–99 )
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Hamburg, N Germany. He studied at Göttingen and Berlin universities, and taught at Darmstadt before emigrating to Canada in 1935, where he taught at the University of Saskatchewan (1935–45). He was director of the division of pure physics at the National Research Council in Ottawa (1949–69). He greatly developed and used spectroscopic methods for a variety of purposes, including the detailed study of energy levels in atoms and molecules, and the detection of free radicals both in laboratory work and in interstellar space. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971. |
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