Gerhard Herzberg Born: 25 December 1904, Hamburg, Germany Died: 3 March 1999, Ottawa, Canada...
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Gerhard Herzberg Gerhard Herzberg Born: 25 December 1904, Hamburg, Germany Died: 3 March 1999, Ottawa, Canada Affiliation at the time of the award: National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Prize motivation: "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals" Field: Physical chemistry, molecular structures mation taken from The Official Website of the Nobel Prize nobelprize The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971
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Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard HerzbergBorn: 25 December 1904, Hamburg, GermanyDied: 3 March 1999, Ottawa, CanadaAffiliation at the time of the award: National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, CanadaPrize motivation: "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"Field: Physical chemistry, molecular structures
Information taken from The Official Website of the Nobel Prize nobelprize.org
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971
“…series of bands with complicated fine structure in the red and photographic infrared…This spectrum was analysed as that of an asymmetric top…” (1)
(1) Spectra and quotes from the Nobel Lecture by G. Herzberg
Geometrical structure of CH2
in the three lowest states
Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig PlanckBorn: 23 April 1858, Kiel, Schleswig (now Germany)Died: 4 October 1947, Goettingen, West GermanyAffiliation at the time of the award:Berlin University,Berlin, GermanyPrize motivation: "in recognition of the services he
rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta"
Field: Quantum mechanicsMax Planck received his Nobel Prize one year later, in
1919.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918
Information taken from The Official Website of the Nobel Prize nobelprize.org
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David BohrBorn: 7 October 1885, Copenhagen, DenmarkDied: 18 November 1962, Copenhagen, DenmarkAffiliation at the time of the award: Copenhagen
University, Copenhagen, DenmarkPrize motivation: "for his services in the
investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them"
Field: Theoretical nuclear physics
Information taken from The Official Website of the Nobel Prize nobelprize.org
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922
Albert EinsteinThe Nobel Prize in Physics 1921
Albert EinsteinBorn: 14 March 1879, Ulm, GermanyDied: 18 April 1955, Princeton, NJ, USAAffiliation at the time of the award: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik, Berlin, GermanyPrize motivation: "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"Field: Theoretical physicsAlbert Einstein received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1922
Information taken from The Official Website of the Nobel Prize nobelprize.org
The electromagnetic spectrum
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum
Planck’s law
