The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering is awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada to recognize "research contributions characterized by both excellence and influence.

[2][3][4] It is an individual annual award that recognizes continued excellence and influence in research in either natural sciences or engineering.

[5] NSERC's Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering was first awarded in 1991 to Raymond Lemieux, a chemist working at University of Alberta.

[6] Mathematician James Arthur from the University of Toronto was the 1999 recipient,[7] the last year before the award was renamed in honour of Gerhard Herzberg, the winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The winner is chosen by a selection committee representing different scientific disciplines, who make a recommendations to the current NSERC president.