List of Canadians

This is a list of well-known Canadians.

Scientists

• Sid Altman - Molecular Biology
• Sir Frederick Banting, (1891-1941), medical scientist, co-discovered insulin
• Charles Best, (1899-1978), medical scientist, co-discovered insulin
• Wilfred Bigelow - first artificial pacemaker
• Bertram Brockhouse - designed the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectroscope
• Sir William Dawson, (1820 – 1899), first Canadian-born scientist of worldwide reputation
• William Francis Giauque - 1949 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
• James Gosling - Programmer, inventor of Java
• Gerhard Herzberg - 1971 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for Molecular Spectroscopy
• David Hubel - 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine for mapping the visual cortex
• Doreen Kimura - Behavioural Psychologist: World expert on sex differences in the brain
• Julia Levy - Microbiologist: co-discovered photodynamic anti-cancer drugs
• David C Harrison (1969), Father of Canadian Physics
• Sir William Logan, (1798-1875), founded the Geological Survey of Canada, knighted by Queen Victoria, awarded the French Legion of Honor.
• John Macoun, (1831 – 1920) - Noted botanist.
• Rudolph Marcus - 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for electron transfer reactions (e.g. rust)
• Maud Menten - (1879-1960), medical scientist, made groundbreaking work in enzyme kinetics
• Henry Morgentaler - abortionist who helped strike all abortions in Canada and strengthen the power of jury nullification in Canada
• Sir William Osler - Physician, "most influential physician in history"
• Wilder Penfield - Neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain
• John Polanyi - 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for infrared chemiluminescence
• Hubert Reeves - Astrophysicist and science popularizer
• Charles Edward Saunders - Marquis Wheat
• Arthur Schawlow - 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (for lasers)
• Myron Scholes - 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Economics
• Hans Selye - (1907-1982) - pioneering stress researcher
• Michael Smith (1932-2000), 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for site-based mutagenesis
• David Suzuki, (born 1936), geneticist and science popularizer
• Henry Taube - 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for electron transfer reactions
• Richard Taylor - 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for verifying the Quark Theory
• Irene Ayako Uchida - Cytogenticist: World-famous Down syndrome researcher
• William Vickrey - 1996 Nobel Prize winner in economics
• Harold Williams - Geologist. World-famous expert on the Appalachian Mountains.
• Tuzo Wilson - Geophysicist. plate tectonics

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• http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientists.php