1966 Fredericton Encaenia
Herzberg, Gerhard
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Colin B. Mackay, Gerhard Herzberg
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Source: UA PC-4 no.13(13)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1966
GERHARD HERZBERG
to be Doctor of Science
To the tributes of Societies, Academics, and Universities we are proud to add our own in honour of an outstanding savant, whose science, Spectroscopy, attains its tercentenary this year.
Director of the Pure Physics division of the National Research Council of Canada, his articles are legion and, translated into Russian, Italian, Hungarian and Japanese, his books are classics. His Council's grant to this University has established a spectroscopy laboratory: our own Dr. Verma has been, and is, his devoted associate.
Intellectually alone but never aloof, blending European decorum with North American bonhomie, this brilliant expatriate has proved a shrewd and inspiring Director. He assigns punctilious attention to his administrative duties, to his own projects, and to those of his post-doctoral Fellows, with whom a cafeteria lunch can become a searching seminar.
President-elect of the Royal Society of Canada, he is a Fellow of that more venerable Royal Society of London. With the mantle of Sir Isaac Newton about his shoulders, he is bringing to fruitful consummation -- doubly fruitful since he is a vegetarian -- the cosmic marriage of the Apple and the Spectroscope.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
GERHARD HERZBERG
to be Doctor of Science
To the tributes of Societies, Academics, and Universities we are proud to add our own in honour of an outstanding savant, whose science, Spectroscopy, attains its tercentenary this year.
Director of the Pure Physics division of the National Research Council of Canada, his articles are legion and, translated into Russian, Italian, Hungarian and Japanese, his books are classics. His Council's grant to this University has established a spectroscopy laboratory: our own Dr. Verma has been, and is, his devoted associate.
Intellectually alone but never aloof, blending European decorum with North American bonhomie, this brilliant expatriate has proved a shrewd and inspiring Director. He assigns punctilious attention to his administrative duties, to his own projects, and to those of his post-doctoral Fellows, with whom a cafeteria lunch can become a searching seminar.
President-elect of the Royal Society of Canada, he is a Fellow of that more venerable Royal Society of London. With the mantle of Sir Isaac Newton about his shoulders, he is bringing to fruitful consummation -- doubly fruitful since he is a vegetarian -- the cosmic marriage of the Apple and the Spectroscope.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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