Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
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The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, located at the at the Canada Science and Technology Museum
in Ottawa, Ontario, honours Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to society in science and engineering. It also promotes role models to encourage young Canadians to pursue careers in science, engineering and technology. The hall includes a permanent exhibition, a traveling exhibition, a virtual gallery, and events and programming to celebrate inductees.
(NRC), Industry Canada
and the Association of Partners in Education, to mark the NRC's 75th anniversary. The hall has since become a major feature of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, and has become a part of the museum's permanent Innovation Canada exhibition.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
The Canada Science and Technology Museum is located in Ottawa, Ontario, on St. Laurent Boulevard, to the south of the Queensway .-Mission:...
in Ottawa, Ontario, honours Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to society in science and engineering. It also promotes role models to encourage young Canadians to pursue careers in science, engineering and technology. The hall includes a permanent exhibition, a traveling exhibition, a virtual gallery, and events and programming to celebrate inductees.
History
The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame was established in 1991 through a joint partnership by the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the National Research Council of CanadaNational Research Council of Canada
The National Research Council is an agency of the Government of Canada which conducts scientific research and development.- History :...
(NRC), Industry Canada
Industry Canada
Industry Canada is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for regional economic development, investment, and innovation/research and development. The department employs 6104 FTEs across Canada....
and the Association of Partners in Education, to mark the NRC's 75th anniversary. The hall has since become a major feature of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, and has become a part of the museum's permanent Innovation Canada exhibition.
Induction Process
The museum uses an open process for nomination of new members. A selection committee reviews nominations annually. Nominees must meet the following criteria:- They must have contributed in an exceptional way to the advancement of science and engineering in Canada;
- Their work must have brought great benefits to society and their communities as a whole;
- They must possess leadership qualities that can serve as an inspiration to young Canadians to pursue careers in science, engineering or technology.
Members
The following people have been inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame (listed by date of birth):- William Edmond LoganWilliam Edmond LoganSir William Edmond Logan was a Scottish-Canadian geologist.Logan was born in Montreal, Quebec, and educated at the High School in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh . He started teaching himself geology in 1831, when he took over the running of a copper works in Swansea. He produced a...
(1798–1875) - John William DawsonJohn William DawsonSir John William Dawson, CMG, FRS, FRSC , was a Canadian geologist and university administrator.- Life and work :...
(1820–1899) - Sandford FlemingSandford FlemingSir Sandford Fleming, was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor, proposed worldwide standard time zones, designed Canada's first postage stamp, a huge body of surveying and map making, engineering much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was a founding...
(1827–1915) - Alexander Graham BellAlexander Graham BellAlexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
(1847–1922) - Reginald FessendenReginald FessendenReginald Aubrey Fessenden , a naturalized American citizen born in Canada, was an inventor who performed pioneering experiments in radio, including early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music...
(1866–1932) - Charles Edward SaundersCharles E. SaundersSir Charles Edward Saunders, FRSC was a Canadian agronomist. He was the inventor of Marquis Wheat....
(1867–1937) - Maude AbbottMaude AbbottMaude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott was a Canadian doctor and was one of Canada's earliest female medical graduates and an expert on congenital heart disease....
(1869–1940) - Wallace Turnbull (1870–1954)
- Ernest RutherfordErnest RutherfordErnest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics...
(1871–1937) - Harriet Brooks PitcherHarriet BrooksHarriet Brooks was the first Canadian woman nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford, who guided her graduate work, regarded her as being next to Marie Curie in the calibre of her aptitude.She was born in Exeter, Ontario...
(1876–1933) - Frances Gertrude McGill (1877–1959)
- Alice Evelyn Wilson (1881–1964)
- Frère Marie-VictorinMarie-VictorinBrother Marie-Victorin was a De La Salle Christian Brother and botanist in Quebec, Canada, best known as the father of the Jardin botanique de Montréal....
(1885–1944) - Andrew McNaughtonAndrew McNaughtonGeneral Andrew George Latta McNaughton, CH, CB, CMG, DSO, CD, PC was a Canadian army officer, politician and diplomat.- Early life :...
(1887–1966) - Margaret Newton (1887–1971)
- Chalmers Jack Mackenzie (1888–1984)
- Henry Norman Bethune (1890–1939), inducted in 2010
- Frederick BantingFrederick BantingSir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, FRS, FRSC was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the main discoverers of insulin....
(1891–1941) - Wilder PenfieldWilder PenfieldWilder Graves Penfield, OM, CC, CMG, FRS was an American born Canadian neurosurgeon. During his life he was called "the greatest living Canadian"...
(1891–1976) - E.W.R. "Ned" SteacieEdgar William Richard SteacieEdgar William Richard Steacie, O.B.E. was a Canadian physical chemist and president of the National Research Council of Canada from 1952 to 1962....
(1900–1962) - George J. Klein (1904–1992), inducted in 1995
- Gerhard HerzbergGerhard HerzbergGerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals". Herzberg's main work concerned...
(1904–1999) - Elizabeth "Elsie" MacGill (1905–1980)
- George C. Laurence (1905–1987), inducted in 2010
- Helen Sawyer HoggHelen Sawyer HoggHelen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC was a prolific astronomer noted for her research into globular clusters...
(1905–1993)
- Joseph-Armand BombardierJoseph-Armand BombardierJoseph-Armand Bombardier was a Canadian inventor and businessman, and was the founder of Bombardier...
(1907–1964) - Alphonse OuimetAlphonse OuimetJ. Alphonse Ouimet, was a Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1958 to 1967....
(1908–1988) - John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993)
- Pierre DansereauPierre DansereauPierre Dansereau, was a Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology".-Biography:...
(1911–2011), inducted in 2001 - Hugh Le CaineHugh Le CaineHugh Le Caine was a Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument builder.Le Caine was brought up in Port Arthur in northwestern Ontario...
(1914–1977) - Douglas Harold CoppHarold CoppDouglas Harold Copp, was a Canadian scientist who discovered and named the hormone calcitonin, which is used in the treatment of bone disease....
(1915–1998) - Harold Elford JohnsHarold E. JohnsHarold Elford Johns, OC was a Canadian medical physicist, noted for his extensive contributions to the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancer.-Early life and education:...
(1915–1998), inducted in 2000 - James HillierJames HillierJames Hillier, was a Canadian-born scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938....
1915-2007, inducted in 2002 - Bertram Neville Brockhouse 1918-2003
- John "Jack" A. HoppsJohn Alexander HoppsJohn Alexander "Jack" Hopps, Canadian, was one of the pioneers of the artificial pacemaker and is known as the "father of biomedical engineering in Canada"....
1919-1998 - Gerald HeffernanGerald HeffernanGerald "Gerry" Heffernan was a professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League. Heffernan played 83 games for the Canadiens, recording 33 goals and 35 assists for a career total of 68 points. He won the Stanley Cup in 1944...
(1919–2007) - Raymond Urgel Lemieux (1920-2000)
- Louis SiminovitchLouis SiminovitchLouis Siminovitch, CC is a Canadian molecular biologist. He was a pioneer in human genetics, researcher into the genetic basis of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, and helped establish Ontario programs exploring genetic roots of cancer.Born in Montreal, Quebec to parents who had emigrated...
(1920–) - Willard BoyleWillard BoyleWillard Sterling Boyle, was a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. On October 6, 2009, it was announced that he would share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor".-Life:Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, he...
(1924–2011), inducted in 2005 - Ernest McCullochErnest McCullochErnest Armstrong McCulloch, OC, O.Ont, FRSC was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.-Biography:...
(1926–2011), inducted in 2010 - John Polanyi (1929–)
- Richard E. TaylorRichard E. TaylorRichard Edward Taylor, is a Canadian-American professor at Stanford University. In 1990, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have...
(1929–), inducted in 2008 - Charles Robert ScriverCharles ScriverCharles Robert Scriver, is an eminent Canadian pediatrician and biochemical geneticist. Scriver made many important contributions to our knowledge of inborn errors of metabolism...
(1930–), inducted in 2001 - James TillJames TillJames Edgar Till, OC, O.Ont, FRSC is a University of Toronto biophysicist, best known for demonstrating – with Ernest McCulloch – the existence of stem cells.-Early work:...
(1931–), inducted in 2010 - Michael SmithMichael Smith-Music:* Michael Joseph Smith , British saxophonist in the pop band Amen Corner* Michael Joseph Smith , jazz composer & performer* Michael Peter Smith , American songwriter and performer...
(1932–2000) - Hubert ReevesHubert Reeves-External links: *...
(1932–) - Arthur B. McDonaldArthur B. McDonaldArthur B. McDonald is a Canadian physicist and the Director of Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute. He also holds Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.- Early life :...
(1943–) - Ransom A. MyersRansom A. MyersDr. Ransom Aldrich "Ram" Myers, Jr. was a world-renowned marine biologist and conservationist.He was the son of cotton planter, Ransom Aldrich Myers, Sr. and Fay A. Mitchell Myers...
(1952–2007)
External Links
- Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame official webpage. Canada Science and Technology Museum official website