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.
Famous for studying orca whales and proving the effects of sea lice from salmon farms on wild Pacific salmon numbers.
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
Canada's Greatest Fisheries Biologist: Inventor of the Ricker Curve for describing fish population dynamics
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.
Pioneering research in phytochemistry, world expert on herbal and medicinal plants.
Found the gene that causes cystic fibrosis
Greatest Canadian natural products chemist
