Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971

Gerhard Herzberg

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971 was awarded to Gerhard Herzberg "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"

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