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 to synthesize sucrose and many blood chemistry compounds
Co-discovered photodynamic anti-cancer and ophthalmology drugs, co-founder of the company QLT Inc.
Medical biophysicist: Discovered the membrane transport protein P-glycoprotein
Wrote classic text on meteorological instruments, optics, and other books on the history of meteorology instrumentation.
Co-discovered a new class of infinite dimensional Lie Algebras, which are now called Kac-Moody algebras
Internationally recognized authority in the field of Civil/Geotechnical Engineering
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.
Detected an elusive subatomic particle which has been sought for over a decade: the single top quark.
Contributed to mineral and petroleum geology, encouraged women to pursue career in science
Geneticist: International authority on genetics of host-parasite relations
Biologist: Invented mathematical ecology
Astronomer and engineer who created a new design in reflecting telescopes
Canada's Greatest Fisheries Biologist: Inventor of the Ricker Curve for describing fish population dynamics
Internationally recognized expert in computational fluid dynamics, Canada's first female head of a university engineering department
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.
Long term study over forty years of the Serenegeti, creating a detailed picture of one of the world's oldest relatively intact ecosystems.
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.
Oceanographer; Professor; Administrator: Studied turbulence spectra in oceanography
forestry:remote sensing
An internationally respected authority in the field of bioelectromagnetics
Geneticist and science communicator: famous as popularizer of science and ecological issues
Pioneering research in phytochemistry, world expert on herbal and medicinal plants.
Discoverer of key role that hyaluronic acid plays in cell migration, and mechanisms that start and stop cancer growth.
First Canadian woman astrophysicist
Contributing to theories on gravity and black holes, early cosmology, and quantum phenomena
Canada's most respected astronomer
Invented and developed the Prism Light Guide System
World’s authority on contaminated soils and their mitigation
