Canadian Nobel Prize Winners
Ten Canadian scientists have won the Nobel Prize:- Sid Altman, Nobel Chemistry 1989 for Catalytic RNA
- Sir Frederick Banting, Nobel Medicine 1923 for Discovering Insulin
- Bert Brockhouse, Nobel Physics 1994 for Condensed Matter
- Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Chemistry 1971 for Molecular Spectroscopy
- David Hubel, Nobel Medicine 1981 for Mapping the Visual Cortex
- Rudolph Marcus, Nobel Chemistry 1992 for Electron Transfer Reactions (e.g.: Rust)
- John Polanyi, Nobel Chemistry 1986 for Chemi- luminescence
- Michael Smith, Nobel Chemistry 1993 for Site-Based Mutagenesis
- Henry Taube, Nobel Chemistry 1983 for Electron Transfer Reactions
- Richard Taylor, Nobel Physics 1990 for verifying the Quark Theory