Canadian scientists
William Ricker
Zoology, Animals, Physiology, Metabolism
Canada's Greatest Fisheries Biologist: Inventor of the Ricker Curve for describing fish population dynamics
"Try and arrange that you’re doing something that you’re interested in. There’s quite a bit of routine in research work but I’ve never worked on a project that I wasn’t very interested in."
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Major profiles
Bertram Neville Brockhouse
Won the Nobel Prize in 1994 for designing the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectroscope and his use of it to investigate Condensed Matter
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Vertebrate palaeontologist who recognized and described the oldest known ancestor of all reptiles birds and mammals; the origins of terrestrial vertebrates, the origin of various amphibians such as frogs and salamanders.
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Henri Darmon
One of the world's leading number theorists, working on Hilbert's 12th problem.
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Ethnobotanist and Infectious Disease Microbiologist: Dr. Elvin-Lewis is an expert on evaluating traditional medicines and their use.
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Gerhard Herzberg
Won the 1971 Nobel Prize in chemistry for using spectroscopy to discover the internal geometry and energy states in simple molecules, and in particular the structure and characteristics of free radicals.
Read more...Werner Israel
Physicist and cosmologist: Wrote the first logically precise theory for the simplicity of black holes (1967)
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Doreen Kimura
Behavioural Psychologist World expert on sex differences in the brain. Wrote the book Sex & Cognition, which argues that there truly is a difference between male and female brains.
Read more...Charles J. Krebs
Famous for writing Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance (now in its fifth edition), a textbook used worldwide to teach ecology, and for his work on the Fence Effect.
Read more...Julia Levy
Co-discovered photodynamic anti-cancer and ophthalmology drugs, co-founder of the company QLT Inc.
Read more...Walter Lewis
Ethnobotanist: World expert on airborne and allergenic pollen and famous for targeting medicinal plants in the tropical rain forest.
Read more...John Charles Polanyi
Won the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for using chemi-luminescence of molecules to explain energy relationships in chemical reactions
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Canada's Greatest Fisheries Biologist: Inventor of the Ricker Curve for describing fish population dynamics
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Completing Darwin's work on evolution by unlocking the mysteries of how natural selection drives the origin of new species.
Read more...Michael Smith
Won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993 for discovering site-directed mutagenesis: that is, how to make a genetic mutation precisely at any spot in a dna molecule.
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