First President of the Canadian Space Agency Contributed to the advancement of science in Canada
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.
Developed methods of simulating atoms in molecular systems to help understand the structural and dynamic behavior of complex materials
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.
First woman to earn Doctorate in Mathematics from Canadian university.
Endocrinologist who won the 2007 King Faisal Prize for developing a steroid hormone therapy for prostate cancer.
A pioneer in the field of chemical kinetics and activated-complex theory
Physicist; among the first to study X-rays
World expert in asbestos chemistry and methods to make asbestos safer
Developed mathematical theories of group representations and number theory
Physicist: first person to attempt to build a fission reactor
Invented electronic musical instruments
Improved the resolution of radioautography
First to synthesize sucrose and many blood chemistry compounds
Developed early theories of computer vision and artificial intelligence
Co-discovered photodynamic anti-cancer and ophthalmology drugs, co-founder of the company QLT Inc.
Ethnobotanist: World expert on airborne and allergenic pollen and famous for targeting medicinal plants in the tropical rain forest.
Applied the theory of Kolmogorov complexity
Medical biophysicist: Discovered the membrane transport protein P-glycoprotein
Prof. Livingston has performed research on ferromagnetic, superconducting, and mechanical properties of metals and alloys. He is now primarily occupied with teaching and writing.
Discovered the T-Cell receptor, a key to the human immune system
One of the world's leading food scientists studying the structure of fats and oils
Contributed to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems
Founded the famous Montreal Botanical Gardens
Discovered the cell growth switch
Conducted a series of experiments that would eventually result in the first proof of the existence of stem cells, a discovery that would revolutionize our understanding of human biology and disease.
Director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Discovered that neutrinos have mass and that they can change from one type of neutrino to another.
One of the foremost authorities in the field of paleontology, First proposed that asteroids or comets might be linked to mass extinctions of dinosaurs
Developed the gate-control theory of pain
Biochemist: Developed the Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics
Wrote classic text on meteorological instruments, optics, and other books on the history of meteorology instrumentation.
Discovered that stem cells could be harvested from human adult skin and that they could be used to grow nerve cells that could potentially help people with spinal cord injuries or Parkinson's disease.
Geophysicist who helped establish a new branch of Earth system science linking geophysical processes with orbital dynamics and the long-term evolution of the Earth’s climate
First purified insulin.
Co-discovered a new class of infinite dimensional Lie Algebras, which are now called Kac-Moody algebras
Pioneering advances in partial differential equations and wave propagation math used in aerodynamics, acoustics and optics
Internationally recognized authority in the field of Civil/Geotechnical Engineering
First to suggest that magnetic striping in the Earth's crust was produced by repeated reversals of the Earth's magnetic field
Famous for studying orca whales and proving the effects of sea lice from salmon farms on wild Pacific salmon numbers.
Talented algebraist whose vigorous career in mathematics was cut short by cancer.
