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Dr. Thomas Swale Vincent
Deceased Date: 1933-12-31
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Dr. Leo Vining
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Keywords: Antibiotics, natural products, biochemistry, biosynthesis, genetics
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Leo Charles Vining, a native of New Zealand, obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in chemistry from the University of Auckland. He won an Exhibition of 1851 Scholarship and attended Cambridge University where he worked in organic chemistry under Prof. A. Todd (now Lord Todd), obtaining the Ph.D. in 1952. Following further work at Kiel (one year) and with S. Waksman at Rutgers (two years), Dr. Vining accepted a position at the Prairie Regional Laboratory where he remained until 1962. Since then he has been Head of the Chemical Biology Section at the Atlantic Regional Laboratory. Dr. Vining's original interest was in the structure of antibiotics and other metabolic products of fungi but in recent years be has become primarily interested in their biosynthesis. Dr. Vining was the Merck, Sharpe and Dohme Lecturer of the C.I.C. in 1965. Dr. Vining is a highly productive scientist who has been promoted to the rank of Principal Research Officer on the basis of his outstanding work.
Mr. Roland Vinette
Affiliation: Université Laval
Deceased Date: 2003-03-30
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Roland Vinette, né à Montréal en 1913, a gravi rapidement, grâce à des aptitudes remarquables, à un talent non moins remarquable, à son jugement sûr et à des études générales et spécialisées toujours couronnées du plus grand succès, les échelons qui I'ont conduit près du sommet, qu'on lui souhaite d'atteindre, des responsabilités que peut assumer un éducateur. Bachelier ès arts, licencié et docteur en pédagogie, il n'enseigna que trois ans dans les écoles publiques de Montréal. On lui confia alors la chaire de pédagogie et de psychologie à I'Ecole normale Jacques Cartier puis à I'Université de Montréal. L'Université Laval et I'Université Saint-Joseph eurent aussi recours à ses précieux services. Il s'imposa par sa valeur et aussi par les qualités d'administrateur qu'on discerna en lui. Il fut I'artisan modeste et efficace des nombreuses et utiles réformes qui se sont accomplies dans les Ecoles normales du Québec depuis 1952 alors qu'on lui en confia la direction générale. Maintenant secrétaire-adjoint du Département de I'instruction publique et secrétaire du Comité catholique du Conseil de I'instruction publique de la province de Québec, il est président de I'Association canadienne des éducateurs de langue française. On lui doit un grand nombre d'articles dans les revues pédagogiques ainsi que quatre ouvrages qui font autorité : « Pédagogie générale », « Méthodologie spéciale», « Echelle de vocabulaire et d'orthographie » ainsi qu'un « Test d'orientation scolaire ». Il fut conseiller spécial du ministre de l'éducation de 1964 à 1969 et professeur agrégé à la Faculté des sciences de l'éducation de l'Université Laval de 1969 à 1978.
Dr. Vadim Vladykov
Deceased Date: 1986-01-14
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Dr. Erich Vogt
Affiliation: Erich W. Vogt
Keywords: Theoretical physics, nuclear physics, particle physics
Deceased Date: 2014-02-19
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No nuclear physicist can afford to ignore Professor Vogt's work on the theory of nuclear reactions. Over the last fifteen years he has published singly, or with collaborators, over 25 papers on various aspects of this theory. The importance of his overall contribution is such that he is now recognized internationally as one of the leading experts in this field of theoretical physics. In addition to his successful activity in nuclear physics Vogt has demonstrated his flexibility and versatility by not only making valuable research contributions to the theory of the solid state, but also by successfully engaging in editorial and organizational activities.
Dr. George Volkoff
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Deceased Date: 2000-04-24
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Dr. Richard Vollenweider
Affiliation: Environment Canada
Keywords: Water productivity, eutrophication, marine mucilages, land based sources of pollution, lake and marine coastal management
Deceased Date: 2007-01-20
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Dr. Richard A. Vollenweider has played a major role in the science of limnology in both Europe and North America. His models relating the abundance of phytoplankton in lakes to inputs of phosphorus and rates of water renewal are used as the basis for managing eutrophication in the majority of the world's lakes, including the St. Lawrence Great Lakes. In 1936, he received the prestigious international Tyler Prize for this work. In earlier papers which are now classics, Vollenweider quantified the optical properties of lakes, and made several pioneering investigations in the relationship between the light attenuation in lakes and algal photosynthesis.
Dr. Erich Von Richthofen
Deceased Date: 1989-12-27
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Dr. Seymour Vosko
Deceased Date: 1994-12-21
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Dr. Mladen Vranic
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Diabetes, exercise, stress, hypoglycemia, hypothalemia - pituitary adrenal axis (HPA)
Deceased Date: 2019-06-18
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Mladen Vranic pioneered tracer methods for nonsteady-state glucose turnover, providing a cornerstone for quantifying hormonal interactions in glucoregulation and pathogenesis of diabetes. He established the significance of glucagon-insulin interaction in health and diabetes. His hypothesis concerning factors that determine beneficial or deleterious glucoregulatory effects of exercise in diabetes is universally accepted. He demonstrated by tracer, cellular and molecular methods how muscle, liver and pancreatic a-cells adapt to hyperglycernia: a critical concept in diabetes. By purifying and determining biological activity of stomach glucagon, he provided the first evidence of glucagon's extrapancreatic site, changing prevailing concepts that one hormone is synthesized in one gland.
Prof. Stephen Waddams
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Deceased Date: 2023-05-27
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Stephen Waddams, a professor of law at the University of Toronto, is one of the leading legal scholars in the common law world. His wide interests encompass a great many fields of law, including contracts, torts, damages, criminal law, and legal history. His 5 books have been widely praised - and widely used - by academics, practitioners and judges throughout the Commonwealth. "The Law of Damages", his latest work, shared the Walter Owen Prize for the best legal book published in Canada in the past several years. Professor Waddams' many reports on various aspects of law reform have made an equally important contribution to the development of the law.
Mark Wainberg
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: HIV, Aids, nucleosides, pathogenesis, drug resistance, prevention
Deceased Date: 2017-04-11
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Mark A. Wainberg, Director of the McGill AIDS Center at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, was the first to identify the anti-HIV activity of 3TC, a compound that is now widely used in the treatment of both HIV disease and hepatitis B. He was also among the first to identify the problem of HIV drug resistance to AZT and other compounds and has been responsible for the mapping of mutation sites that encode resistance. His laboratory has also conducted mechanistic investigation of HIV drug resistance through studies on recombinant, purified mutated and wild-type HIV reverse transcriptase. He was the President of the International AIDS Society from 1998 to 2000.
Dr. John Walker
Deceased Date: 1977-04-10
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Dr. Thomas Walker
Deceased Date: 1942-08-06
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Sir Edmund Walker
Deceased Date: 1969-02-14
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Dr. Edmund Walker
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Dr. Norma Walker
Deceased Date: 1968-08-09
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Dr. Osman Walker
Deceased Date: 1958-09-09
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Dr. J. Wallace Walker
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Dr. Elisabeth Wallace
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Deceased Date: 2009-01-30
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Elisabeth Wallace has studied and written on political ideas and institutions with special reference to Britain, Canada and the Commonwealth. Her early investigations dealt with the evolution of Canadian ideas in relation to public policy, and resulted in many learned articles and her book, "Goldwin Smith Victorian Liberal" (1957), which assessed the career and writings of a man who for more than a generation provoked constant discussion about Canada's character and national destiny. She later concentrated on the political, economic, and cultural background of the British Caribbean, with special reference to the West Indies Federation. See her book on "the British Caribbean: From the Decline of Colonialism to the end of Federatia" (1977). Over the years Elisabeth Wallace's writings have been distinguished by painstaking research, clarity, and perception.
Member of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Winner of the University of British Columbia's medal for popular biography for "New Life of Goldwin Smith".
Dr. Robert Wallace
Deceased Date: 1955-01-29
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Dr. Philip Wallace
Affiliation: McGill University
Deceased Date: 2006-03-20
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By building up a strong group of theoreticians at McGill, Philip Wallace has made a major contribution to the development of Physics in this country.
His own work has been in electrodynamics, the band theory of graphite, positron annihilation and magnetoplasma waves in solids. His 1947 paper on graphite gave the first band structure calculation for a particular solid and is the standard first reference on that subject. His work on positron annihilation laid the basis for understanding the 'long lifetime' in molecular materials and its temperature variation. His series of papers on magnetoplasma waves in semiconductors are amongst the first and most important in that field.
Relativity: work with L. Infeld on the extension to the paper of Einstein, Infeld and Hoffman on the derivation of equations of motion from field theory to include electromagnetism. Numerous papers on the physics of semiconductors in intense magnetic fields. Developed a self-consistent method in quantum magneto-optics which led to the discovery and study of new macroscopic quantum states.
Have written three books - "Mathematical Analysis of Physical Problems" (Dover 1982), "Physics: Imagination and Reality" (World Scientific ) and "Paradoix Lost: Images of the Quantum" (Springer, 1996). Also, edited two Conference Proceedings: "Superconductivity" (Gordon and Breach 1968) and "New Developments in Superconductors" (North Holland, 1972).
Member representing Canada: International Advisory Committee of biennial International Conferences on Semiconductors, Kyoto, 1980, Montpellier 1982, Warsaw 1984, Stockholm 1986.
Principal of Science College, Concordia University 1984-87.
Dr. William Wallace
Deceased Date: 1970-03-11
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Mr. Jean-Pierre Wallot
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Canada/Québec 1760-1867, histoire économique et sociale, imprimerie et culture, nationalisme Canadien-Français, religion et moeurs
Deceased Date: 2010-08-30
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Journaliste, bibliographe mais surtout spécialiste d'histoire sociale et politique du Bas-Canada , Jean-Pierre Wallot est reconnu comme l'un des meilleurs historiens de sa génération, non seulement au Québec mais au Canada.
Chercheur énergique, érudit et au fait des développements récents dans les sciences humaines, Wallot a participé activement au renouveau de l'histoire sociale au Canada depuis le milieu des années 1960. Ses travaux sur le tournant du XIXe siècle dans le Bas-Canada ont contribué à renouveler les interprétations de cette période, et si l'unanimité n'est pas faite sur tous les aspects de l'interprétation qu'il a aidé à accréditer, il n'en demeure pas moins qu'il a déjà laissé sa marque sur l'historiographie de cette période.