Unlocked secrets of how the embryos of fish, frogs and chicks form from a simple egg, and how this process changes over evolution.
Discovered the telomere clock
Developed Hebb synapse and cell assembly theory
Developed a species ID system called 'DNA barcoding', which uses a small DNA fragment to discriminate species.
Studied natural systems and the response of predators to prey
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.
Improved the resolution of radioautography
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.
Discovered the T-Cell receptor, a key to the human immune system
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.
Biochemist: Developed the Michaelis-Menten equation for enzyme kinetics
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.
Famous for studying orca whales and proving the effects of sea lice from salmon farms on wild Pacific salmon numbers.
Plant Pathologist: Expert in wheat stem rust
Internationally recognized for his work on cellular organization: how cells respond to growth signals, and how they communicate with each other
Geneticist: International authority on genetics of host-parasite relations
Biologist: Invented mathematical ecology
Authority on plant hybridization, especially of lilies.
Canada's Greatest Fisheries Biologist: Inventor of the Ricker Curve for describing fish population dynamics
A world leader in developmental biology
Contributed major ideas about the philosophy of biology and Darwinism
Chemist; Cereals Experimentalist: Developed Marquis wheat for the Canadian West
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
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.
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
Geneticist and science communicator: famous as popularizer of science and ecological issues
Shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of telomeres.
Molecular biologist; conducted pioneering research on the role genes play in the development of the mammalian embryo.
Pioneering research in phytochemistry, world expert on herbal and medicinal plants.
Found the gene that causes cystic fibrosis
