Canadian Nobel Winners
in the field of atomic and molecular spectroscopy. He determined the structures of many diatomic and polyatomic molecules. Herzberg died in the 4th of March, this year in Ottawa.
1976 Literature Laureate: Saul Bellow for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work Saul Bellow is considered a Canadian American. He has won the Nobel as an American. He was born in Lachine Quebec in 1915 but was raised in Chicago. His first Novel was "Dangling Man", published in 1944, followed by "The Victim" published in 1947. He has done many latter novels from 1950's to the 1980s including a Pulitzer Prize winning Humboldt's Gift (published 1975).
1981 Medecine Laureate: Dr. David Hubel for their [with Torsten N. Wiesel] discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system Dr. David Hubel is another Canadian who won the Nobel as an American since he did his studies for the Harvard Medical School in Boston. He was born in Winsor, Ontario from Canadian Ascendance (three of four grandparents) but his parents were born in Detroit. In 1958 he and Torsten N. Wiesel began studies together at the Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital before the laboratory he worked for was moved to the Harvard Medical School. He won the Medicine Nobel in 1981.
1981 Physics Laureate: Arthur Schawlow for their [with Nicolaas Bloembergen] contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy Arthur Schawlow was born in Vermont in 1921 to a European father and a Canadian mother but moved to Toronto at the age of three. He wanted to become a radio Engineer but had to settle with Physics for there was no scholarship available at that time for engineering. He studied at the University of Toronto. He latter worked at the Columbia University with Charles Townes (1964 physics laureate). In 1951 he became a physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories until 1961 when he became professor of Physics at Stanford University who was affiliated with his work on the development of laser spectroscopy.
1983 Chemistry Laureate: Henry Taube for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes Henry Taube was born Neudorf, Saskatchewan, in 1915 but became an American citizen in 1942. He studied at the University of Saskatchewan and later at the University of California in Berkeley. He was an instructor at Berkeley and Cornell University during the 40's. From 1962 to 1986 he was a professor at Stanford
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