Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering
The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering is a research award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada . Before 2000 it was called the Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering before it was renamed in honor of Gerhard Herzberg . It is awarded to scientists working in Canada and is considered the highest Canadian research award. With the award, a cash prize of 1,000,000 CAD links that can use over a period of five years for scientific purposes of the award winners.
It is not to be confused with the Herzberg Medal of the Canadian Association of Physicists .
Award winners
- 1991 Raymond Lemieux , chemistry
- 1992 William Fyfe , Earth Sciences
- 1993 Pierre Deslongchamps , chemistry
- 1994 Alan Davenport , Civil Engineering
- 1995 Peter Hochachka , Zoology
- 1996 Stephen Hanessian , chemistry
- 1997 Keith Brimacombe , Metallurgy
- 1998 Keith Ingold , chemistry
- 1999 James Arthur , Mathematics
- 2000 Howard Alper , chemistry
- 2001 David Schindler , biology
- 2002 Tito Scaiano , chemistry
- 2003 Arthur McDonald , Physics
- 2004 John Smol , biology
- 2005 David Dolphin , biochemistry
- 2006 Richard Bond , Astrophysics
- 2007 John Polanyi , chemistry
- 2008 Paul Corkum , Physics
- 2009 Gilles Brassard , Physics
- 2010 Geoffrey Hinton , Computer Science
- 2011 W. Richard Peltier , Geosciences
- 2012 Stephen Cook , Mathematics
- 2013 W. Ford Doolittle , Biology
- 2015 Axel Becke , chemistry
- 2016 Victoria M. Kaspi , Physics
- 2017 Jeff Dahn , Physics
- 2018 Lewis E. Kay , Biochemistry
- 2019 Barbara Sherwood Lollar , Earth Sciences
Web links
- ^ CAP Herzberg Medal - Canadian Association of Physicists. In: cap.ca. November 30, 2018, accessed June 23, 2018 .