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Dr. David Schindler
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Deceased Date: 2021-03-04
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DAVID W. SCHINDLER founded the Experimental Lakes Project of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in 1968. After directing the project for 22 years, he moved to the University of Alberta, where he has been the Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology since 1989. He has received numerous awards for his scientific work, including the first Frank Rigler Award of the Canadian Society of Limnologists, the Hutchinson Medal of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, the Naumann-Thienemann Medal of the International Limnological Society, the first Miroslaw Romanowski Medal of the royal Society of Canada, the Manning Award of Distinction for Innovation in Science, the first Stockholm Water Prize, the Volvo Environment Award, and the Gordin Kaplan Award. He has served as the president of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. He has received four honorary doctorate degrees from Canadian and American Universities, and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 1983. He has published over 225 papers on a wide variety of topics in aquatic ecology and biogeochemistry, including eutrophication, acid rain, climate warming, and lake restoration.
Dr. William Schneider
Deceased Date: 2013-02-18
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Dr. Richard Schoeck
Keywords: Study of texts, especially poetic, history of ideas, theories of humanism & the humanities, poetry
Deceased Date: 2008-01-29
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Professor Richard J. Schoeck, of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, is a connoisseur of greatness: great books, great men, great scholarship. His joy in these things may account for the ease with which he accommodates a great variety of interests with his many professional duties. He has been an eminent figure in Renaissance studies for several years. His participation in the Thomas More project at Yale University has consolidated his prestige with many other scholars. Inseparable from his historical interests have been his extensive studies in contemporary literature. His great erudition is accompanied by a sensitive awareness of the relevance of the past to contemporary needs. As a dedicated teacher, he has long lavished his learning and his understanding on his students. There is no conflict for him between the demands of erudition and instruction. His has been the satisfaction of watching his own students awaken to the joys of the life of learning. His colleagues have shared the same benefits as his students and the campus dialogue has been greatly enriched by his presence.
Dr. Stuart Schofield
Deceased Date: 1947-07-23
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Dr. Henry Schogt
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Deceased Date: 2020-04-12
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At the University of Utrecht, at the Sorbonne, at Princeton and, since 1966, at the University of Toronto where he is Chairman of the Graduate Department of French, Henry SCHOGT has proved himself an outstanding teacher in Romance and Slavic Languages, General Linguistics, and the analysis of literary texts. By his writings he has earned universal respect as a scholar. A new book on Semantics, in the press, again demonstrates the lucidity and urbanity with which he clarifies much of the chaos among linguisticians. As a humane scientist dealing with the basic problems of meaning and expression, he is welcome in the Royal Society.
Dr. John Schrader
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Immunology, cytokines, protein kinases, inflammation, monoclonal antibodies
Deceased Date: 2019-10-18
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John Schrader is a pioneer in the investigation of cytokines and their role in health and disease. He defined the function of interleukin-3 as a link between the immune system and the formation of blood cells and identified the role of the antiviral protein interferon-gamma in inducing expression of major histocompatibility complex antigens on cells that do not normally express them. He is the inventor of a method for generating monoclonal antibodies that has been successfully commercialized.
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John Schrader is a pioneer in the investigation of cytokines and their role in health and disease. He defined the function of interleukin-3 as a link between the immune system and the formation of blood cells and identified the role of the antiviral protein interferon-gamma in inducing expression of major histocompatibility complex antigens on cells that do not normally express them.
Sir John Schultz
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Dr. Hans Wilhelm Schwerdtfeger
Deceased Date: 1990-06-26
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Anthony Scott
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Natural-resource economics
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Dr. Scott has imaginatively expanded the study of the material and human resources of Canada. His professional colleagues have recognized his quality by electing him President of the Canadian Political Science Assoc. in 1966 and he has more recently been made a member of the Board of the American Economic Association. He is a man of energy and enthusiasm and talent who ably shares the results of his scholarship with economists, governments and other scholars.
Dr. David Scott
Deceased Date: 1971-11-18
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William Scott
Affiliation: Royal Ontario Museum
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W.B. Scott is widely known for his faunistic and taxonomic studies on both freshwater and marine fish. These have resulted in the standard reference works "Fishes of the Atlantic Coast of Canada" and the monumental "Freshwater Fishes of Canada". His recent five year appointment as Executive Director of the Huntsman Marine Laboratory has resulted in the establishment of important research in that institution.
Dr. Robert Balgarnie Scott
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Dr. Duncan Scott
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Dr. Frederick Scott
Deceased Date: 1944-01-19
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Dr. Steven Scott
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Marine, geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, mining
Deceased Date: 2019-06-11
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Steve Scott is a leading geochemist, mineral deposits geologist and, more recently, deep sea explorer. His early work on sphalerite established a geological pressure indicator which is used widely in ore deposits, metamorphic rocks and meteorites. His studies of ancient Cu-Zn deposits in Canada and more recent ones in Japan brought us a clearer understanding of their environment of deposition, particularly from the sediments around them, and prepared him for his present fascinating and most important work diving and sampling actively forming mineral deposits along the ridges of the oceans around North America.
Dr. Fracis Scott
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Mr. H. A. Scott
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Dr. Charles Scriver
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Human biochemical genetics, human genomic variation, mutation databases, human population genetics
Deceased Date: 2023-04-07
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Dr. Scriver's basic work concerned the expression of genes in the transport of amino acids across membranes of kidney cells and his concept of "inborn errors of transport'' and studies of gene dependent-abnormal vitamin dependencies. Two inborn errors of transport were discovered and ten new inherited biochemical diseases and some modes of treatment. He has received international recognition for applying genetic knowledge to the management of hereditary disease. He achieved a change in Quebec legislation so that vitamin-D is added to milk benefitting about 500 infants yearly. He pioneered the unique Quebec Genetics Network which screens virtually every new-born baby for hereditary metabolic diseases bringing treatment where needed. He lectures at McGill University and publishes extensively.
Dr. Garnet Sedgewick
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Dr. Philip Seeman
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Deceased Date: 2021-01-09
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Dr. Seeman has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of drug actions in the brain. His research on "fluidization" of cell membrane lipids provided an explanation of the anaesthetic action of drugs of widely differing chemical structure, and was the basis for a current theory of tolerance to such drugs. In 1974 he devised a method for measuring the numbers and binding properties of dopamine receptors in different parts of the brain. This internationally acclaimed work has led to the identification of different types of dopamine receptors and their roles in the pathophysiology and treatment of schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease and other diseases of the nervous system.
Dr. Alec Sehon
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Deceased Date: 2018-02-02
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Dr. Sehon first made his reputation in the field of bond dissociation energies and soon established an international reputation as an imaginative scientist, with some 20 papers published in this field. In the last 12 years he has brought powerful physico-chemical tools to bear on the problems associated with immunochemistry and allergens. His 75 papers in this field have brought international acclaim to his laboratory. With tremendous energy he almost uniquely combines the talents of the physical scientist with those of the biological, and this has brought him to the forefront of his profession.
Dr. Peter Seixas
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: History education, learning, historiography
Deceased Date: 2022-10-09
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With training as a historian and long experience in school teaching, Peter Seixas has produced a body of internationally-recognized work that has transformed the field of history education. He has defined a set of elements characterizing historical thinking that have become foundational both in history education research and in history curriculum documents. As founder of the Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, he has brought an interdisciplinary synergy to the disparate fields of collective memory, public history, historiography, and history education and helped to clarify the relationship among histories delivered in public institutions, taught in schools, and conceptualized intellectually.
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Peter Seixas has transformed the field of history education. He has defined a set of elements characterizing historical thinking that have become foundational. As founder of the Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, he has brought an interdisciplinary synergy to the disparate fields of collective memory, public history, historiography, and history education.
Dr. Bruce Sells
Affiliation: University of Guelph
Keywords: Science policy
Deceased Date: 2018-11-10
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Professor Sells has made major contributions in the field of nucleic acid and protein synthesis and has greatly advanced our understanding of the assembly of ribosome particles in the living cell. The scientific excellence of Dr. Sell's research has been recognized by substantial research grants from Canadian and United States sources. He is author of 68 scientific publications, written several invited articles, and participated in International Symposia. His contributions have been recognized by the award of several fellowships and prizes. Dr. Sells is a member of numerous scientific societies and he has served the University and scientific community in various capacities. He was President of the Canadian Biochemical Society for 1981-82; a member of the National Cancer Institute of Canada on the grants panel, and a member of MRC. Professor Sells is currently Associate Dean of Basic Medical Research, Health Sciences.
Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn
Deceased Date: 1902-10-19
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