List of Canadians - Scientists

Scientists

  • Altman, Sidney (born 1939) – molecular biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry
  • Bandura, Albert (born 1921) – psychologist
  • Bell, Robert (1841–1917) – geologist
  • Bell, Walter A. (1889–1969) – geologist, paleontologist
  • Blaylock, Selwyn G. (1879–1945) – chemist and mining executive
  • Blusson, Stewart (born 1939) – geologist, diamond prospector, multimillionaire and philanthropist
  • Boyle, Willard (born 1924) – inventor of the charge coupled device, winner of nobel prize in physics
  • Brockhouse, Bertram (1918–2003) – designer of the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectroscope
  • Brossard, Georges (born 1940) – entomologist, television personality and founder of the Montreal Insectarium
  • Brown, Moira (unknown) – North Atlantic Right Whale researcher and conservationist
  • Clague, John J. (born 1946) – authority in quaternary and environmental earth sciences
  • Currie, Philip J. – world renowned palaeontologist
  • Dawson, Sir John William (1820–1899) – first Canadian-born scientist of worldwide reputation
  • Derry, Duncan R. (1906–1987) – economic geologist
  • Douglas, Robert John Wilson (1920–1979) – petroleum geologist
  • Fields, John Charles (1863–1932) – mathematician and founder of the Fields Medal
  • Fraser, J. Keith (born 1922), geographer
  • Gabrielse, Hu (unknown) – geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada
  • Giauque, William Frances (born 1949) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry
  • Herzberg, Gerhard (1904–1999) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for molecular spectroscopy
  • Hillier, James (1915–2007) – inventor of the electron microscope
  • Irving, Edward (born 1927) – provided the first physical evidence of continental drift
  • Ling, Victor (1944–) – medicine, drug resistance in cancer
  • Logan, Sir William Edmond (1798–1875) – founded the Geological Survey of Canada
  • Macoun, John (1831–1920) – noted botanist
  • Marcel-Hillaire, Claude (born 1944) – world leader in quaternary research
  • Marcus, Rudolph (born 1923) – Nobel Prize in chemistry recipient for electron transfer reactions
  • McCulloch, Ernest (born 1926) – cellular biologist who – with James Till – demonstrated the existence of stem cells
  • Menten, Maud (1879–1960) – medical scientist, made groundbreaking work in enzyme kinetics
  • Polanyi, John Charles (born 1929) – Nobel Prize in chemistry recipient for infrared chemiluminescence
  • Price, Raymond A. (born 1933) – geologist
  • Reeves, Hubert (born 1932) – astrophysicist and science popularizer
  • Sangster, Donald F. (unknown) – geologist
  • Saunders, Charles E. (1867–1937) – agronomist
  • Schawlow, Arthur (1921–1999) – Nobel Prize winner in physics (for lasers)
  • Schindler, David W. OC (born 1940) – limnologist
  • Scholes, Myron (born 1941) – Nobel Prize winner in economics
  • Selye, Hans (1907–1982) – pioneering stress researcher
  • Smith, Michael (1932–2000) – Nobel Prize winner in chemistry for site-based mutagenesis
  • Stewart, Peter A. (1921–1993) – physiologist, quantitative acid-base physiology
  • Summerbell, Richard (born 1956) – mycologist
  • Suzuki, David (born 1936) – geneticist and science popularizer
  • Taube, Henry (1915–2005) – Nobel Prize in chemistry for electron transfer reactions
  • Taylor, Richard (born 1929) – Nobel Prize in physics recipient for verifying the Quark Theory
  • Till, James (born 1931) – biophysicist who – with Ernest McCulloch – demonstrated the existence of stem cells
  • Tyrrell, Joseph (1858–1957) – geologist, cartographer, discoverer of dinosaur bones in Alberta
  • Vickrey, William (1914–1996) – Nobel Prize winner in economics
  • Williams, Harold (born 1934) – geologist, expert on the Appalachian Mountains
  • Wilson, John Tuzo (1908–1993) – geophysicist, expert in plate tectonics

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