What is Spectroscopy?
What is spectroscopy? This video, produced by Defining Moments Canada, explains what this is, how Gerhard Herzberg used it, and what its applications are today.
CBC Archives
This Country in the Morning
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Peter Gzowski, host of This Country in the Morning, inteviews Dr. H.L. Welsh, Chairman of Physics Department at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Gerhard Herzberg, physicist (interview over the phone from Moscow), about the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dr. Herzberg, the role of science, the obstacles to scientific research specially in pure science, the functioning of the NRC, the importance of independence and autonomy in scientific research, science in the USSR.
November 1, 1971
As it Happens
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Interviewed by Barbara Frum, Dr. Gerhard Herzberg, Canadian Nobel Prize winner, speaks from Ottawa about the problems of awarding the Nobel Prize, deciding who gets it and the competition between scientists to get the prize.
July 6, 1972
Front Page Chalenge
Courtesy of CBC Archives/CBC Saskatchewan
Fred Davis moderated the panel quiz show CBC's Front Page Challenge in which panellists identified news stories from clues supplied by a mystery guest.
On this episode... CANADIAN SCIENTIST WINS NOBEL PRIZE: Mystery guest Dr. Gerhard Herzberg (an opera-loving, mountain-climbing physicist with the National Research Council who won a nobel prize for his work in molecular spectroscopy).
Panellists: Pierre Berton, Betty Kennedy and Gordon Sinclair. Guest panellist: Dr. Don Ivey.
Oct. 10, 1972
CBC Radio Archives - News Report
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In this CBC news clip, it's announced that Canadian scientist Gerhard Herzberg has won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Original air date: Nov. 1, 1971
CBC Radio Archives - Five Nights
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On this segment of CBC Five Nights, Nobel Prize winner, chemist Dr. Gerhard Hertzberg, says he would be disappointed at decreasing support for basic research.
He says it's difficult to have industry accept innovation, and stresses the importance of the pursuit of knowledge.
Reporter: Helen Frayne
Original airdate: Nov. 3, 1972
CBC News - Vintage Video
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November 9, 1971
OTTAWA -- Canadian Gerhard Herzberg who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971 comments on the need for scientific research being decided by the scientist and the need for increased funding for research in pure science.
National Film Board - Herzberg (1979)
Gerhard Herzberg, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1971, is a molecular spectroscopist who was welcomed to Canada by the University of Saskatchewan in 1935 where he spent 10 productive years. This film shows Dr. Herzberg in his laboratory at the National Research Council in Ottawa where, with the aid of highly sophisticated instruments, he tracks down elusive bits of matter that are the keys to discovering what the planets, stars and the universe are made of.
Enjoy a virtual screening of Herzberg (1979), a documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Les Productions Tournesol. This online, live-screening is available for a limited time, thanks to the National Film Board.