Gerhard+Herzberg-1971

Gerhard Herzberg was born on December 25, 1904 in Hamburg, Germany. He died at the age of 95 on March 3, 1999. He was a pioneer of physics and physical chemistry and recieved the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1971. His main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy. Spectroscopy is the study of the interaction between radiation and matter as a function of wavelength. Spectroscopy deals withs light and Herzberg developed this. Spectroscopy also dealt with electrons and their jumps of orbital shells to create colors.