Alain Peyrefitte est l'un des grands français de ce siècle. Diplomate, député à l'Assemblée Nationale, il a été ministre sous De Gaulle et a contribué au renforcement des relations entre la France, le Canada et le Québec; à 72 ans il est toujours Sénateur. Il est surtout connu mondialement comme membre de l'Académie Française et de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques de l'Institut de France, essayiste, analyste politique et homme de lettres. Grand spécialiste de la Chine, ses ouvrages sont devenus des classiques : Quand la Chine s'éveillera (1973), L'Empire Immobile (1989), La Tragédie Chinoise (1990), La Chine s'est éveillée (1996). Il publie un autre ouvrage monumental, C'était de Gaulle, qui reconstitue la trame politique française de plusieurs décennies.

Kenneth Kernaghan, Departments of Politics and Management, Brock University, is one of Canada's outstanding academic experts on public administration. He has written widely on all aspects of public administration with particular emphasis on ethics and values. He has been the editor of two of the major journals in his field: Canadian Public Administration and the International Review of Administrative Sciences. He has also had a great influence on the practice of public administration, because his written work has been widely used by both students and practitioners, and he has served as a consultant to many governments in the development of ethical standards and other areas of public administration.

Margo Wilson, Department of Psychology, McMaster University, has made significant contributions to knowledge about interpersonal violence, and has been a major participant in the development of theory and research methods in evolutionary psychology. She pioneered the epidemiological approach in homicide research, creatively synthesizing case data from Canada, Britain and the United States with population information to discover the distinct patterns of risk that are characteristic of marital, parental and other relationships, and she has made important discoveries about the similarities and differences between lethal and nonlethal violence against wives and children with respect to effects of such factors as family composition, age and age disparity.

The pioneering studies on how sugars are attached to proteins in mammalian and yeast cells of Annette Antoinette Herscovics, McGill Cancer Centre, McGill University, have contributed significantly to our basic biochemical and cell biological knowledge. Her work on the glycosylation of thyroglobulin demonstrated that the process was sequential, with mannose addition occurring in the endoplasmic reticulum, followed by subsequent fucose and galactose additions in the Golgi apparatus. She was among the first to show that the initial steps required for the biosynthesis of N-linked oligosaccharides in the endoplasmic reticulum occur through a pathway of dolichol-based lipid intermediates, and to elucidate the steps in synthesis of the dolichol-linked oligosaccharides. Herscovics has explored the processing of N-linked oligosaccharides through purification and molecular cloning of the participating processing mannosidases and glucosidases, and discovered that the deoxynojiromycin related antibiotics act as specific inhibitors of these processing glycosidases.

Dimitri Kitsikis, Département d'histoire, Université d'Ottawa, a jeté les bases de la branche de cette histoire qui s'occupe de la propagande et des pressions comme arme gouvernementale de politique extérieure. Il a aussi ouvert la voie à 1'étude de la technocratie internationale. Il a insisté sur le phénomène religieux comme composante essentielle de politique internationale. Théoricien reconnu d'une confédération gréco-turque, il a fondé les grands concepts qui ont révolutionné l'histoire de l'espace gréco-turc. Il a créé un modèle original pour une étude renouvelée des idéologies politiques et a publié sur l'histoire de Chine, tout en poursuivant une carrière parallèle de poète.

H. Patrick Glenn, Faculty of Law, McGill University, is a world-renowned scholar whose innovative approaches to comparative law and legal theory have contributed to opening up the field of comparison of judicial institutions. His studies on the theory, history and evolution of western legal traditions, together with his pioneering scholarship on customary law, codification, legal methodology and the judicial borrowing of persuasive authorities across jurisdictional boundaries have helped to redefine scholarship in comparative law research. He has also authored monographs on private international law and on the Canadian refugee policy.

Mark P. Zanna, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, is one of the most prolific, cited, and innovative social psychologists in the world. His work is of both theoretical and practical importance. His major research interest is the social psychology of attitudes. He has studied the bases of people's attitudes toward smoking, immigration, various ethnic groups, and social policies such as affirmative action. In many of these contexts, he strives to understand when and why people's beliefs conflict with their actions. In recent work, he has studied why people drive when intoxicated or engage in unprotected sex, even though they know the hazards.

George Karpati, Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Montreal Neurological Institute, is one of Canada's most outstanding clinician-scientists. His studies of muscle physiology and the pathology of neuromuscular disease have brought him international recognition. His greatest achievements are in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a lethal genetic disorder due to a deficiency of the cytoskeletal muscle protein, dystrophin. He was the first to show the localization of dystrophin to the muscle fiber surface and to demonstrate a lack of dystrophin in the fibers of Duchenne patients. Karpati demonstrated pre-clinical success with adenovirus-mediated dystrophin gene replacement in mice. His research is not confined to Duchenne MD, but covers a broad range of basic and clinical studies on myopathies and other neuromuscular disorders, and utilizes a broad spectrum of technologies from clinical diagnosis, histology, cytochemistry, molecular biology and genetics.

Eric Walter Mountjoy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, is acclaimed, nationally and internationally, for his research on the Devonian reef complexes of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, the sedimentology and diagenesis of carbonate rocks, and the structure and stratigraphy of the southern Rocky Mountains of Canada. His distinguished record as a teacher and mentor of research students at McGill University, and as a versatile and highly productive field geologist, spans more than four decades. He continues to make outstanding contributions to field and laboratory research, basic science, petroleum geology, and the training of highly qualified Canadians.

Chi Shing Wong, Climate Chemistry, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, has been a pioneer in international research on the C02 cycle between the ocean and atmosphere. He was the first in Canada to build up a national research facility on the C02 cycle and to start time series studies in the Pacific and later in the Arctic and Atlantic coast. This study was the first to quantify decadal-scale oceanic uptake of fossil-fuel C02 at 2 GtC/year. For this, he was co-recipient of the Newcombe Cleveland Prize of the AAAS. Earlier, he initiated ocean pollutant monitoring, established a world class trace metal clean room and defined an oceanic baseline for oil pollution and levels of heavy metals in seawater.

Mondialement connu par ses travaux sur Zola et par ses ouvrages sur le roman du dix-neuvième et du vingtième siècles, Henri Mitterand est professeur émérite à la Sorbonne nouvelle et professeur titulaire au département de français de Columbia University, à New York. Il a fondé un centre de recherches sur Zola au CNRS en France, et un autre au Canada, à Toronto où il a enseigné de 1970 à 1993. Ces centres ont été très actifs et productifs. Henri Mitterand a apporté une contribution remarquable à la critique zolienne, tant du point de vue littéraire que social. Il a, d'autre part, renouvelé par ses recherches la critique des textes littéraires.