$cache['en']['SELECT subjectName, subjectCodeID FROM subjectCodes WHERE parentSubjectCodeID = 1 ORDER BY subjectCodeID ASC'][] = 'SELECT subjectName, subjectCodeID FROM subjectCodes WHERE parentSubjectCodeID = 1 ORDER BY subjectCodeID ASC'; $cache['en']['SELECT regionName, regionID FROM regions '][] = 'SELECT regionName, regionID FROM regions'; ?> science.ca Scientists

Most popular scientists

Endel Tulving

World authority on human memory function

Lap-Chee Tsui

Found the gene that causes cystic fibrosis

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.

Willard S. Boyle

Co-Inventor of the Charge Coupled Device for which he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics

Sid Altman

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

Hubert Reeves

World famous cosmologist and science communicator

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...

Biruté Galdikas

World’s foremost authority on orangutans

John Charles Polanyi

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

Donald (H. S. M.) Coxeter

Greatest classical geometer of the 20th century

Sandra Witelson

Neuroscience, biological basis for cognition in male and femal brains

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.

Tak Wah Mak

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

Werner Israel

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

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

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.

Julia Levy

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

Irene Ayako Uchida

World-famous Down syndrome researcher

Roger Daley

Principal constructor of the Canadian numerical weather forecasting system

William Ricker

Canada's Greatest Fisheries Biologist: Inventor of the Ricker Curve for describing fish population dynamics

Alexander Graham Bell

Worked with the deaf, inventor.

Louis Taillefer

World expert on superconductivity

Henri Darmon

One of the world's leading number theorists, working on Hilbert's 12th problem.

Dolph Schluter

Completing Darwin's work on evolution by unlocking the mysteries of how natural selection drives the origin of new species.

Robert L. Carroll

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...

Walter Lewis

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

Memory Elvin-Lewis

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

David Schindler

Schindler identified detergent phosphates as a pollutant killing lakes in the 1960s, and pinpointed acid rain as a widespread cause of fish deaths in the 1970s & '80s. Schindler now warns that rapid...

Sir Frederick Grant Banting

Successfully isolated insulin and received the Nobel Prize

David H. Hubel

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

Louis Slotin

Nuclear scientist killed by radiation accident at Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1946.

John Herbert Chapman

Builder of the Canadian space program

Ray Jayawardhana

Popular writer on the origin and diversity of planetary systems and the formation of stars and brown dwarfs.

John Tuzo Wilson

Geophysicist: pioneer in the study of plate tectonics

Ronald James Gillespie

Developed VSEPR (Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion) Theory

Fergus I. Craik

One of the world's foremost authorities in the areas of human memory and the effects of aging on learning, memory, and attention

Kathy Conlan

An expert in understanding the weird and wonderful world of marine creatures that live deep under the Arctic ice.

Kelvin Kenneth Ogilvie

Synthesized (RNA) ribonucleic acid, and invented the drug ganciclovir

Roberta Lynn Bondar

First Canadian woman astronaut in space

Donald Brian Calne

Neurologist who first used synthetic dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease.

Created by the science.ca team, Copyright © 2001, 2015 GCS Research Society. Visitor agreement.