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Mr. Joseph Bonenfant
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: Université de Sherbrooke
Deceased Date: 2000-04-24
Joseph Bonenfant, du Département des lettres et communications de l'Université de Sherbrooke, est un littéraire qui a formé, au cours de trente ans de carrière, des disciples qui marquent aujourd'hui les lettres québécoises. Il a lui-même signé de nombreux articles sur la poésie comme genre littéraire ou sur l'oeuvre de poètes français ou québécois.
Il est l'auteur d'un essai, « Passions du poétique », qui lui a valu deux prix littéraires. Sa contribution au rayonnement des lettres et de la culture est reconnue au niveau national et international.
Prof. Laurence Bongie
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Enlightenment (studies), hume, diderot, condillac, SADE
Deceased Date: 2020-12-26
Laurence Bongie, Department of French, The University of British Columbia, is a researcher and author whose work demonstrates mastery of eighteenth-century literary, philosophic, and historical studies. The French Enlightenment is his chief subject field, but his range of marked competence extends to figures associated with eighteenth-century Britain. His writings present striking discoveries, both archival and interpretative, which change our perspectives on Hume, Diderot, Condillac, Charles Edward Stuart, and Sade, also on the underworld of clandestine publication. His model scholarship is at its best when he is working with primary sources, solving problems, exploding stubborn myths, and challenging ideological pieties. His five ground-breaking books on five different authors place him in the top rank of eighteenth-century scholars.
Senator douard Bonnefous
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: Institut de France
Deceased Date: 2007-02-24
Dr. Jonathan Borwein
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Newcastle
Keywords: Experimental mathematics, optimization, functional analysis, high performance computing, collaborative technology
Deceased Date: 2016-08-02
Jonathan Borwein is a mathematician of great versatility and range. He has contributed to classical and modern analysis, optimization, computational mathematics and number theory. One of his accomplishments is the Borwein-Preiss Smooth Variational Principle which has proved to be fundamental for the study of differentiability of functions on Banach spaces. He has been a pioneer in the study of nonsmooth analysis and generalized gradients. In addition, he has made some fascinating contributions to the study of computational algorithms. For instance, with his brother, Peter Borwein, he discovered a cubic analogue of the arithmetic-geometric mean iteration of Gauss and Legendre.
Prof. J. Bosher
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Merchants,tTrade, Vancouver Island, British Empire, New France
Deceased Date: 2020-09-03
John Francis Bosher is an historian who has established a reputation in both Canada and Europe through his writings on eighteenth century France. His two books, "The Single Duty Project"1965) and "French Finances 1770-1795" (1970), and a large number of scholarly articles have opened up, in an imaginative and pioneering way, the study of the pre-revolutionary public administration of France. His research has been resourceful and thorough, his writing style elegant and his interpretation of the
critical subject widely praised. His studies of the administration of New France and the relations between France and New France have been of great importance to students of Canadian history. Professor Bosher's international standing as an historian is testimony to the seriousness with which he approaches scholarship and the magnitude of his achievement.
Mr. Raymond Boudon
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: Université Paris IV-Sorbonne
Keywords: Sociologie de l'éducation, sociologie de la connaissance, sociologie de valeurs, histoire de la sociologie, sociologie de la mobilité sociale
Deceased Date: 2013-04-10
Raymond Boudon figure parmi les plus éminents sociologues de notre époque. Ses livres on fait réfléchir des générations de la fin des années 60. Imperméable aux canons de la "pensée unique et correcte", il maintient fermement l'héritage de nos grands ancêtres des XIXe et XXe siècles : le mariage de la raison et de la justice. La primauté des valeurs assurant la dignité de chaque individu s'harmonise, en fin de compte, avec la finalité de la justice sociale.
Dr. Alan Boulton
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Keywords: Brain chemistry, brain drugs , biogenic amines, neural-rescue, biogenic markers
Deceased Date: 2010-11-13
Dr. Alan A. Boulton has achieved national and international prominence in the area of neurochemistry for his own outstanding research, his extensive editorial work and his participation at the highest level in international and national societies. The major focus of his research has been a group of compounds named the trace amines, their neuromodulatory role in the central nervous system and their possible involvement in the etiology of some neurological and psychiatric disorders. He has maintained a very high productivity over more than a quarter of a century and has made a significant contribution to the research literature.
Dr. Arthur Bourns
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McMaster University
Keywords: Science policy
Deceased Date: 2015-05-29
Dr. Bourns has made many important contributions to chemistry and has acquired an international reputation in the field of physical-organic chemistry.
He was one of the first in Canada to apply kinetic and equilibrium isotope effects in the elucidation of reaction mechanisms and is an international authority in this field. His publications are of a fundamental nature and represent important contributions to our understanding of organic reactions.
He has been a regular participant in the annual symposium on reaction mechanisms held by the Organic Section of the American Chemical Society. In 1959-60 he was Vice-Chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on 'The Chemistry and Physics of Isotopes' and has been elected Chairman for the 1961-62 conference. Recently he was invited to convene and chair the symposium on physical organic chemistry to be held in June 1961 by the Royal Society of Canada. He receives many invitations to speak about his current researches from both Canadian and American institutions.
Since he became Dean of the Graduate Faculty at McMaster University in 1957, he has not only made important research contributions of his own but has done much to encourage research in other departments of the university. He is a particularly strong candidate for fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada.
Mr. Charles Bourne
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Drainage basin, equitable utilization, cross-media pollution, significant basin, ground waters
Deceased Date: 2012-06-25
Charles Bourne has been a close friend and colleague of mine ever since he arrived in Canada. As President of the University with a special interest in International Law, I have had a unique opportunity to judge his work and his character. He has had a special interest in the development of the Law School and the University and is, I know, highly regarded by his colleagues as well as by his many students. If elected to the Royal Society he will contribute much of interest and value to its work.
Edward Bousfield
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Animal systematics, evolution, biogeography, aquatic biology, ecology
Deceased Date: 2016-09-07
Dr. Bousfield has achieved world recognition as systematist and marine biogeographer, specializing in the Crustacea and Mollusca of the Canadian seaboard and of New England. He has greatly advanced the field of the 'new systematics' (combining taxonomy, ecology and paleontology), and he has extended his studies on a worldwide basis, particularly concerning the amphipods of the South Pacific including New Zealand. His interest in burrowing amphipods resulted in the discovery of the very large haustoriid complex endemic to the Atlantic coast. He has also done important work on the freshwater amphipods of glaciated North America and on the gammarids of the world.
Additional research interests (1980 to present) include systematics of amphipod crustaceans of the Pacific Coast of Canada, biology of sea serpents of the Canadian Pacific region, and classification of Cambrian arthropods.