Call for Nominations: Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering

The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering will be awarded to an individual whose body of work, conducted in Canada in the natural sciences or engineering, has demonstrated persistent excellence and influence.

Funding Information

• In addition to the medal, the recipient is awarded a grant of up to $1 million to use for personal university-based research or to direct in some related way, such as the establishment of scholarships or research chairs in their name at Canadian universities. The monetary award is distributed over a five-year period. Research grant funds paid to recipients of this prize are subject to the Tri-agency guide on financial administration.
• If the recipient already has an NSERC Discovery Grant (DG), that grant is increased up to a maximum of $200,000 for each of the five years. The value of the Herzberg award is added to funds already scheduled through the DG program. In cases where the grant is currently greater than $150,000, the recipient will receive an additional $50,000 top-up to the grant for the five years of the Herzberg award.
• A recipient who does not hold an NSERC DG may direct the full $200,000 to university research endeavours, such as scholarships.

Eligibility Criteria

• Candidates may be nominated by any individual or group. Posthumous nominations or self-nominations will not be accepted. Current NSERC Council members are not eligible for nomination.
• As of the deadline, the nominee must be a scientist or engineer employed at a Canadian university, Canadian federal or provincial government lab or private firm active in Canada whose research is primarily based in the fields of the natural sciences and/or engineering. In addition, the majority of the most significant contributions to research, training and mentoring included in the nomination must stem from work conducted while the nominee was employed (primary place of employment) in Canada. NSERC reserves the right to rule on the eligibility of nominees.
• NSERC strongly encourages nominators and university officials to consider equity, diversity and inclusion in their nomination processes.
• An individual may receive the NSERC Herzberg Medal only once. An individual may be nominated for the NSERC Herzberg Medal and other NSERC prizes (Brockhouse, Polanyi, McDonald, Synergy or Strickland) in the same year but can only receive one prize in a given year.

For more information, visit NSERC.