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Frederick Herzberg biography, theory and books
Alexander Zeeman
May 15, 2024
Frederick Herzberg (1923-2000) was a clinical psychologist and is one of the major writers in management and motivational theories. Frederick Herzberg was one of the most influential management teachers and consultants of the post-world war II. His approach focuses on content theories and explains specific things that motivate an individual at work. Frederick Herzberg is recognized by his book The Motivation to Work (1959) and by the Two Factor theory.
Frederick Herzberg biography
Frederick Herzberg received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1950 and studied at the City College. He was offered a fellowship to attend the Graduate School of Public health at the University of Pittsburgh where he studied clinical and abnormal psychology.
His interest was in industrial mental health, but he soon discovered that the concepts of industrial mental health were a restatement of his previous study. Because of this, Frederick Herzberg entitled his thesis ‘Mental Health Is Not the Opposite of Mental Illne
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Gerhard Herzberg
German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904–1999)
The Honourable Gerhard Herzberg PC CC FRSC FRS | |
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Gerhard Herzberg, London 1952 | |
| Born | Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg December 25, 1904 Hamburg, Imperial Germany |
| Died | March 3, 1999(1999-03-03) (aged 94) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | German |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Technische Universität Darmstadt |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | physical chemist |
| Institutions | Carleton University, National Research Council of Canada, University of Saskatchewan, University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Rau [de] |
| Doctoral students | Takeshi Oka |
Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, PC CC FRSC FRS[1] (German:[ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁtˈhɛʁt͡sˌbɛʁk]ⓘ; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and ge
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NSERC Prizes
Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering
About the Scientist
Gerhard Herzberg
In the early 1920s, when young Gerhard Herzberg chose astronomy as his preferred profession, his application to Germany's Hamburg Observatory came back with the advice that "there is no point in thinking of a career in astronomy unless one has private means of support."
It was the only "credential" Herzberg lacked. His support came from his mother, widowed when Herzberg was 10 years old. Mrs. Herzberg eventually emigrated to Wyoming for a housekeeper's position that enabled her to send small amounts back to her two sons in Germany. The young Herzberg endured those lean and lonely years by immersing himself in mathematics, chemistry and physics.
These interests brought him to the attention of a superb high school physics teacher, Herr Hillers, who was in touch with the revolutionary theories then driving physics. He introduced Herzberg to the ideas of the great Danish physicist Niels Bohr, whose atomic theories were layin
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