THOMAS HENRY BULL SYMONS, graduate of the universities of Toronto and Oxford, has attained distinction in Canada as academic administrator and proponent of Canadian Studies. His scholarly vision and political judgment established Trent University. In an atmosphere of general neglect for human scale, community, and historical continuity, he gave Trent University a purpose and determination. The record of his public services and his role as champion of excellence in Canadian education testify to his abilities and his selfless zeal. "TO KN0W OURSELVES" has generated considerable interest in academic circles, in the press, in government circles, and among the public generally. His contribution to the promotion of learning and research entirely justifies his membership in the Royal Society of Canada as an Unattached Fellow.

Professor Takahashi is responsible for several fundamental contributions to the phenomenal postwar development of quantum field theory. His theory for relativistic wave equations and his covariant formulation of quantization of canonical fields have become the basis for the present form of quantum field theory. The celebrated Ward-Takahashi identity, discovered by Takahashi in 1957, is fundamental in quantum field theory and applied in particle physics, solid state physics and relativity. Takahashi's many important contributions since settling in Canada in 1968, include a field theoretical formulation of statistical mechanics ('thermo-field dynamics'), an analysis of quantum gauge fields and a field theoretical formulation of crystal dislocation theory.