Plant Pathologist: Expert in wheat stem rust
Detected an elusive subatomic particle which has been sought for over a decade: the single top quark.
Synthesized (RNA) ribonucleic acid, and invented the drug ganciclovir
Best-known physician in the English-speaking world around 1900
Internationally recognized for his work on cellular organization: how cells respond to growth signals, and how they communicate with each other
Contributed to mineral and petroleum geology, encouraged women to pursue career in science
Predicted and measured the cosmic background radiation from the big bang, as well as predicting the existence of dark matter and dark energy in the universe.
Mapped out the functional areas of the cerebral cortex
Geneticist: International authority on genetics of host-parasite relations
Pioneer in Psychosocial Oncology
Biologist: Invented mathematical ecology
Pioneer of toxicology in Canada
Astronomer and engineer who created a new design in reflecting telescopes
World's premier HIV/AIDS researcher
Won the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for using chemi-luminescence of molecules to explain energy relationships in chemical reactions
Research on computer vision
Authority on plant hybridization, especially of lilies.
One of the main originators of conflict theory, game theory, and peace research
Global authority on pulp and paper chemistry
World famous cosmologist and science communicator
Canada's Greatest Fisheries Biologist: Inventor of the Ricker Curve for describing fish population dynamics
Climatologiste: The first Canadian scientist to successfully perform a simulation of the atmosphere’s general circulation using a computer model.
A world leader in developmental biology
Contributed major ideas about the philosophy of biology and Darwinism
Internationally recognized expert in computational fluid dynamics, Canada's first female head of a university engineering department
Chemist; Cereals Experimentalist: Developed Marquis wheat for the Canadian West
World renowned photochemist who discovered the reaction causing paper to turn yellow over time and developed ways to make paper more stable
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...
Completing Darwin's work on evolution by unlocking the mysteries of how natural selection drives the origin of new species.
Discovered importance of vitamin D in children’s skeletal disease of rickets
Popularized science
Co-discoverer of convertases, enzymes that cleave proteins to create biologically active chemicals such as hormones
World-famous pioneer and popularizer of research on biological stress in human individuals and groups
Pioneer in human genetics Researcher into the genetic basis of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis
Long term study over forty years of the Serenegeti, creating a detailed picture of one of the world's oldest relatively intact ecosystems.
Nuclear scientist killed by radiation accident at Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1946.
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.
Expert on ecology of ancient lakes, and river and lake pollution
Cancer researcher, whose work is leading to the creation of new anti-cancer treatments
World authority on the genetics of Alzheimer disease
