Most Popular Scientists

Health

Sandra Witelson (Medicine)

Neuroscience, biological basis for cognition in male and femal brains

Health

Endel Tulving (Psychology)

World authority on human memory function

Biology

Sid Altman (Molecular Biology)

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

Biology

Lap-Chee Tsui (Genetics)

Found the gene that causes cystic fibrosis

Biology

Biruté Galdikas (Zoology, Animals, Physiology, Metabolism)

World’s foremost authority on orangutans

Physics

Hubert Reeves (Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science)

World famous cosmologist and science communicator

Mathematics

Donald (H. S. M.) Coxeter (Pure and Applied Mathematics)

Greatest classical geometer of the 20th century

Chemistry

Michael Smith (Organic Chemistry)

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.

Health

Doreen Kimura (Psychology)

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.

Physics

Willard S. Boyle (Condensed Matter Physics, crystals, magnets, superconductors, semiconductors)

Co-Inventor of the Charge Coupled Device

Biology

Julia Levy (Microbiology and Immunology)

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

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

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

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

Tak Wah Mak (Microbiology and Immunology)

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

Health

David H. Hubel (Medicine)

Co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1981 for mapping the visual cortex

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

Irene Ayako Uchida (Genetics)

World-famous Down syndrome researcher

Physics

Werner Israel (Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Science)

Physicist and cosmologist: Wrote the first logically precise theory for the simplicity of black holes (1967)