1. Gerhard Herzberg 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.
Gerhard Herzberg had an older brother, Walter, who was born in January 1904.
Gerhard Herzberg's father died in 1914, at 43 years of age, after having suffered from dropsy and complications due to an earlier heart condition.
Gerhard Herzberg married Luise Herzberg, a spectroscopist and fellow researcher in 1929.
Gerhard Herzberg was working as a lecturer at the university in Darmstadt.
However Gerhard Herzberg had earlier worked with a visiting physical chemist named John Spinks, from the University of Saskatchewan.
Spinks helped Gerhard Herzberg get a job at the university in Saskatoon.
Gerhard Herzberg was honoured with memberships or fellowships by a very large number of scientific societies, received many awards and honorary degrees in different countries.
Gerhard Herzberg was made a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
Gerhard Herzberg was later named an Honorary Member of the Society.
Gerhard Herzberg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1951.
Gerhard Herzberg authored some classic works in the field of spectroscopy, including Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure and the encyclopaedic four volume work: Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure, which is often called the spectroscopist's bible.