Major Profiles

Louis Taillefer (Superconducting Materials, physics of electrons, crystals, metals, ceramics)

World expert on superconductivity

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.

Biology

Walter Lewis (Botany)

Ethnobotanist: World expert on airborne and allergenic pollen and famous for targeting medicinal plants in the tropical rain forest.

Chemistry

John Charles Polanyi (Physical Chemistry)

Won the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for using chemi-luminescence of molecules to explain energy relationships in chemical reactions

Biology

Lap-Chee Tsui (Genetics)

Found the gene that causes cystic fibrosis

Biology

Memory Elvin-Lewis (Botany)

Ethnobotanist and Infectious Disease Microbiologist: Dr. Elvin-Lewis is an expert on evaluating traditional medicines and their use.

Biology

Irene Ayako Uchida (Genetics)

World-famous Down syndrome researcher

Physics

Bertram Neville Brockhouse (General Physics, Subatomic Particles, Optics, Biophysics, Theoretical Physics)

Won the Nobel Prize in 1994 for designing the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectroscope and his use of it to investigate Condensed Matter

Biology

Robert L. Carroll (Evolution and Ecology)

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.

Chemistry

Gerhard Herzberg (Physical Chemistry)

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.

Biology

Charles J. Krebs (Zoology, Animals, Physiology, Metabolism)

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.

Biology

Julia Levy (Microbiology and Immunology)

Co-discovered photodynamic anti-cancer and ophthalmology drugs, co-founder of the company QLT Inc.

Biology

Sid Altman (Molecular Biology)

Discovered catalytic RNA, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1989

Biology

Tak Wah Mak (Microbiology and Immunology)

Discovered the T-Cell receptor, a key to the human immune system