Canadian scientists
Peter B. Borwein
Pure and Applied MathematicsInternationally renowned mathematician who, with his brother Jonathan, calculated the value of pi to a new world record.
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Henry Taube
Inorganic ChemistryWon the Nobel prize in chemistry for studying electron transfer reactions
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Raymond Lemieux
Organic ChemistryFirst to synthesize sucrose and many blood chemistry compounds
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Major profiles
Sid AltmanDiscovered catalytic RNA, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1989 |
 Biology |
Willard S. BoyleCo-Inventor of the Charge Coupled Device for which he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics |
 Physics |
Bertram Neville BrockhouseWon the Nobel Prize in 1994 for designing the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectroscope and his use of it to investigate Condensed Matter |
Physics |
Robert L. CarrollVertebrate 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. |
 Earth |
Donald (H. S. M.) CoxeterGreatest classical geometer of the 20th century |
 Mathematics |
Roger DaleyPrincipal constructor of the Canadian numerical weather forecasting system |
Earth |
Henri DarmonOne of the world's leading number theorists, working on Hilbert's 12th problem. |
Mathematics |
Memory Elvin-LewisEthnobotanist and Infectious Disease Microbiologist: Dr. Elvin-Lewis is an expert on evaluating traditional medicines and their use. |
Biology |
Biruté GaldikasWorld’s foremost authority on orangutans |
Biology |
Gerhard HerzbergWon 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. |
 Chemistry |
Werner IsraelPhysicist and cosmologist: Wrote the first logically precise theory for the simplicity of black holes (1967) |
Physics |
Doreen KimuraBehavioural 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. |
 Medicine |
Charles J. KrebsFamous 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. |
Biology |
Julia LevyCo-discovered photodynamic anti-cancer and ophthalmology drugs, co-founder of the company QLT Inc. |
Biology |
Walter LewisEthnobotanist: World expert on airborne and allergenic pollen and famous for targeting medicinal plants in the tropical rain forest. |
Biology |
Tak Wah MakDiscovered the T-Cell receptor, a key to the human immune system |
Biology |
John Charles PolanyiWon the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for using chemi-luminescence of molecules to explain energy relationships in chemical reactions |
Chemistry |
Hubert ReevesWorld famous cosmologist and science communicator |
Physics |
William RickerCanada's Greatest Fisheries Biologist: Inventor of the Ricker Curve for describing fish population dynamics |
Biology |
Dolph SchluterCompleting Darwin's work on evolution by unlocking the mysteries of how natural selection drives the origin of new species. |
Biology |
Michael SmithWon 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. |
Chemistry |
Louis TailleferWorld expert on superconductivity |
Physics |
Lap-Chee TsuiFound the gene that causes cystic fibrosis |
Biology |
Endel TulvingWorld authority on human memory function |
Medicine |
Irene Ayako UchidaWorld-famous Down syndrome researcher |
Biology |
