Neuroscience, biological basis for cognition in male and femal brains

World authority on human memory function

Found the gene that causes cystic fibrosis

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

World’s foremost authority on orangutans

World famous cosmologist and science communicator

Greatest classical geometer of the 20th century

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

World-famous Down syndrome researcher

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

Principal constructor of the Canadian numerical weather forecasting system

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

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.

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

World expert on superconductivity

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

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

Successfully isolated insulin and received the Nobel Prize

Worked with the deaf, inventor.

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

Established the Fields medal, the "Nobel Prize" of mathematics.

Pathologist. Developed a classification system for congenital heart diseases

First Canadian woman astronaut in space

Won the Nobel Prize for verifying the quark theory

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

Won the Nobel prize in chemistry for studying electron transfer reactions

Builder of the Canadian space program

Talented algebraist whose vigorous career in mathematics was cut short by cancer.

Biologist: Invented mathematical ecology

Contributed to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems

Developed a model for estimating fish populations using VPA (virtual population analysis)

Visual neuroscientist who has pioneered research into how our brains see and hear, and how animals like monarch butterflies and seabirds navigate amazing distances.

Identified a new species of ancient human, “Peking Man”

Designed Cobalt 60 units for treatment of cancer

Pioneered biofilm microbiology

One of the world's foremost experts on the molecular understanding of the ways bacteria infect their hosts

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

Top Canadian molecular biologist studying the genetics of fish populations

Geomatics Engineer and world expert in the research and development of satellite navigation tools using GPS

Geophysicist: pioneer in the study of plate tectonics

Researched globular star clusters and popularized astronomy

Pioneered the physics of ancient archeological materials

Contributing to theories on gravity and black holes, early cosmology, and quantum phenomena

First woman to earn Doctorate in Mathematics from Canadian university.

Canada’s first female nuclear physicist

Internationally renowned mathematician who, with his brother Jonathan, calculated the value of pi to a new world record.

Astronomer and engineer who created a new design in reflecting telescopes.

Lipid-based drug delivery systems

Internationally renowned mathematician who, with his brother Peter, calculated the value of pi to a new world record.

Pioneering advances in partial differential equations and wave propagation math used in aerodynamics, acoustics and optics

Geneticist and science communicator: famous as popularizer of science and ecological issues

World leader in the field of Numerical Relativity

Co-designed the first commercially available electron microscope in North America

First Canadian woman astrophysicist

Researched BCG vaccine for tuberculosis, and infant leukemia

Mathematician; internationally recognized for his outstanding advances in unifying the mathematical fields of algebra and analysis

Studies regeneration of neurons in the brain and spinal chord

A founding father of experimental petrology.

World's foremost expert on the study of white dwarf stars

World leader in field of catalytic organic chemistry

One of the first animal ecologists in the world and a world expert on lemmings

Co-discoverer of insulin

Researched magnetic excitations and structures of solids and liquids; first to observe the "Haldane Gap", thereby confirming a previously controversial theory in quantum magnetism.

World-famous pioneer and popularizer of research on biological stress in human individuals and groups

Medical physicist; Member of the team that developed the first Cobalt 60 units for cancer treatment

Developed the gate-control theory of pain

One of the main originators of conflict theory, game theory, and peace research

Important cosmologist and astrophysicist

Discovered sex chromatin

First woman geologist in Canada, expert in paleozoic formations

Mapped out the functional areas of the cerebral cortex of the brain

Expert on superconductivity

Invented mathematical bioeconomics

One of first doctors to treat diabetic children with insulin

Expert in congenital birth defects specializing in dwarfism and other genetic factors affecting children's growth.

Researching the theory of elementary particles, condensed matter and cosmology

Developed VSEPR (Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion) Theory

Developed mathematical theories of group representations and number theory

entomology, insects, forensics, crime

One of Canada's most prominent theoretical chemists, specializing in molecular structure and reactivity.

Invented the APL computer programming language

Chemist; Cereals Experimentalist: Developed Marquis wheat for the Canadian West

Immunologist; international authority on mucosal immunity.

Developed the first and still most widely used blood test for certain types of cancer

Breakthroughs in fields of computer vision, artificial life and computer graphics

One of the world’s foremost authorities on bats

Contributed major ideas about the philosophy of biology and Darwinism

Pioneered the synthesis of organic molecules

International authority in veterinary virology and immunology

Psychiatrist, leader in brain research and in the causes and treatments of clinical depression

Neurobiologist who has used the common fruit fly as a model to study aging and human neurodegenerative diseases such as Lou Gehrig's disease and Alzheimer's.