Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. Its primary objective is to promote learning and research in the natural and social sciences and in the humanities.

Awards

The Society awards twenty different awards on an annual or biennial basis. Some of these include:

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• Willet G. Miller Medal, for outstanding research in any branch of earth sciences
• Bancroft Award, for publication, instruction, and research in the earth sciences
• Flavelle Medal, for an outstanding contribution to biological science
• Henry Marshall Tory Medal, for outstanding research in a branch of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or an allied science
• Lorne Pierce Medal, for an achievement in critical or imaginative literature
• Pierre Chauveau Medal, for a distinguished contribution to knowledge in the humanities
• Sir John William Dawson Medal, for important and sustained contributions in at least two different domains
• Thomas W. Eadie Medal, for contributions in engineering and applied science