Nobel Prize

Faculty of Fine Arts Dean Barbara Sellers-Young receives international award

There are many awards for personal achievement, ranging from the most valuable player in an amateur sports team to the Nobel Prize. Such achievements, big or small, rarely happen without the encouragement and assistance of a myriad of people behind the scenes. Researcher, author, educator and academic administrator Barbara Sellers-Young (right) , dean of York’s […]

Prof publishes long-awaited biography of astrophysicist mother

It has taken many years of toiling, but York Professor Emeritus Paul Herzberg has now completed a biography of his mother Luise Herzberg, the wife of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Gerhard Herzberg (Hon DSc. ’69) and an astrophysicist in her own right. Luise Herzberg, Astrophysicist: A Memoir is more than just a tribute to his mother, […]