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Dr. Fred Wilson
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Fred Wilson has established himself as one of the most influential and widely respected philosophical scholars at work in Canada. He has built an international reputation principally in two intersecting research areas: the philosophy of science and the history of British empiricism. All of his work has been marked by a prodigious command of the literature, a meticulous attention to detail, a high standard of argumentative rigour, and the uncovering of novel ways of resolving longstanding controversies. He has made an enormous and quite distinctive contribution to philosophical scholarship in Canada.
Dr. Thomas Wilson
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Fiscal policies, industrial organization, regulation
Professor T. A. Wilson is an economic theorist, applied econometrician and analyst of public policy whose main scholarly contributions have been in the fields of industrial organization and macroeconomics. On the one hand, his book on "Advertising and Market Power" is an outstanding piece of perceptive theoretical and statistical analysis of an elusive and difficult relationship. On the other hand, Wilson's econometric modelling of the Canadian economy has enabled him to analyze and publish important articles on macroeconomic phenomena and policies respecting principally inflation, employment and fiscal policy. In this connection, his early work with the Royal Commission on Taxation was a significant application of dynamic analysis to the understanding of Canadian investment and growth.
Professor Wilson also stimulated the work of others through his unstinting efforts to provide leadership and research facilities for colleagues.
Roger Wilson
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Induction Year: 2021
Roger Wilson is the world authority on the archaeology of Roman Sicily. For over thirty years his ground-breaking books and articles have reshaped our understanding of the province and its complex cultural interactions. He has also conducted fundamental research on Sicilian mosaics in their Mediterranean context. His meticulous excavations have shed new light through pioneering use of scientific techniques on topics such as ancient Sicily’s rural economy and human health.
Roger Wilson est le plus grand spécialiste mondial de l’archéologie de la Sicile romaine. Depuis plus de trente ans ses livres et articles novateurs ont remodelé notre compréhension de la province et de ses interactions culturelles complexes. Il a également mené des recherches fondamentales sur les mosaïques siciliennes dans leur contexte méditerranéen. Ses fouilles méticuleuses ont apporté un éclairage nouveau grâce à l’utilisation pionnière de techniques scientifiques sur des sujets tels que l’économie rurale et la santé humaine de l’ancienne Sicile.
Dr. Christine Wilson
Affiliation: McMaster University
Induction Year: 2014
Professor Christine Wilson, McMaster University. Christine Wilson is a world expert on the structure and evolution of star formation within galaxies. She has played distinguished roles in an ever-widening series of international research programs that reveal the complex structures of the Giant Molecular Clouds inside which all star formation takes place. Her prolific and deeply thought out work forms a key connection to understanding galaxy formation in the early universe.
Christine Wilson est une experte de renommée mondiale dans le domaine de la structure et de l’évolution de la formation d’étoiles au sein des galaxies. Elle a participé à la direction de plusieurs programmes de recherche internationaux visant à caractériser les structures complexes des Nuages Moléculaires Géants à l’intérieur desquels la formation des étoiles prend place. Son travail, prolifique et approfondi, fourni un lien essential pour notre compréhension de la formation de galaxies au début de l’univers.
Dr. Anne Wilson
Affiliation: Wilfrid Laurier University
Keywords: identify, self-appraisal, autobiographical memory, time and temporal distance, collective memory
Induction Year: 2014
Anne Wilson is a Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology who studies identity over time. Her interests include autobiographical memory, beliefs about time and change, and how future cognition affects decision making, long-term goal pursuit, and motivation. Understanding how humans negotiate temporal challenges can promote better choices in health, relationships, environmental sustainability, and well-being over the lifespan. Her work is highly cited in her discipline and well-received by the public.
Anne Wilson est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada en psychologie sociale et étudie l’évolution de l’identité. Elle s’intéresse, entre autres, à la mémoire autobiographique, aux croyances sur le temps et l’évolution et à la façon dont la cognition affecte la prise de décision, la poursuite d’objectifs à long terme et la motivation. Comprendre comment les humains abordent les difficultés liées au temps peut permettre de faire de meilleurs choix en matière de santé, de relations, de développement durable et de bien-être. Ses travaux sont très souvent cités au sein de sa discipline et très bien accueillis par le public.
Dr. Catherine Wilson
Affiliation: University of York, UK
Keywords: 17th & 18th century philosophy, history and philosophy of science, moral theory, empiricism
Catherine Wilson is a leading philosopher in the development of new approaches to seventeenth and eighteenth century continental philosophy. Her major works, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity; Leibniz's Metaphysics and The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and The Invention of the Microscope, have established her as an authority on the period, as an internationally recognized expert on Leibniz, and as a ground-breaking scholar of the relationship between science and philosophy. These outstanding books, together with her excellent articles on aesthetics, moral philosophy and philosophy of science, place her at the forefront of interdisciplinary approaches to current philosophical inquiry.
Prof. Phil Winne
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Keywords: self-regulated learning, metacognition, learning strategies, motivation, learning technologies
Induction Year: 2019
WINNE, Philip H. – Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
Philip Winne is a pioneering theorist and methodologist contributing to research on self-regulated learning and learning analytics. He launched the cognitive medational paradigm in educational psychology and sparked a methodological shift toward gathering trace data that reveal learning skills and strategies as process events. His team engineers state-of-the-art software to support online learning while simultaneously assembling big data that are fueling advances in 21st century learning science.
Philip Winne est un théoricien pionnier de la recherche sur l’autorégulation de l’apprentissage et l’analyse de l’apprentissage. Il a lancé le paradigme de médiation cognitive en psychologie éducative et a permis de marquer un tournant méthodologique majeur dans la collecte de données centrées sur les traces révélant des compétences et stratégies d’apprentissage comme les événements de processus. Son équipe, à la fine pointe de la technologie de l’apprentissage en ligne, contribue largement au progrès des sciences de l’apprentissage du 21e siècle.
Dr. Mitchell Winnik
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Block copolymer micelles, polymer interfaces, metal-chelating polymers for early cancer detection, latex films
Dr. Winnik is known internationally for his pioneering contributions to fluorescence spectroscopy for the study of polymer materials. He has shown how energy transfer experiments can be used to study diffusion of polymers across interfaces, and used these methods to solve long outstanding problems associated with formation of films from latex particle dispersions. A key feature of the Winnik Group research is its close connection with industry. They identify areas where the advancement of a technology requires new fundamental knowledge about polymer systems, and create new methods to obtain that knowledge.
Catharine Winstanley
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Induction Year: 2020
Catharine Winstanley explores the neurobiology underlying impulsivity and decision making, in order to improve treatments for addiction and compulsive disorders. Her work shows that pairing wins with casinoinspired sounds and lights during gambling simulations increases risky choice in rats and humans, and also alters the sensitivity of the dopamine system. This research may help explain why electronic gambling games are so addictive, and why drug and gambling addictions often co-occur.
Catharine Winstanley étudie la neurobiologie qui sous-tend l’impulsivité et la prise de décision, dans le but d’améliorer les traitements contre la dépendance et les troubles compulsifs. Son travail démontre que l’association des gains avec des sons et des lumières de type casino pendant les simulations de jeu augmente la tendance à prendre des décisions risquées chez les rats et les humains, et modifie aussi la sensibilité du système dopaminergique. Cette recherche peut aider à expliquer pourquoi les jeux de hasard électroniques sont si addictifs et pourquoi la toxicomanie et la dépendance au jeu coexistent bien souvent.
Dr. Mark Winston
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Keywords: Apiculture, agricultural policy, genetically modified crops, pest management, dialogue
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Mark Winston excels at both science and public communication of scientific concepts and controversy. He has pioneered research on honey bee demographics, swarming, division of labor and "killer" bees. His award-winning studies that elucidate how the queen uses her mandibular gland pheromone to control her retinue of workers have led to new products that enhance pollination and calm worker bees for international shipment. He is a prolific contributor to scientific journals. His recent writings on environmental issues and science policy have culminated in two highly acclaimed books, "Nature Wars: People versus Pests" and "Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone."
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Mark Winston has pioneered research on honeybee demographics, swarming, division of labour and "killer" bees. His award-winning studies that elucidate how the queen uses her mandibular gland pheromone to control her retinue of workers have led to new products that enhance pollination and calm worker bees for international shipment.
Meghan Winters
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Induction Year: 2022
Dr. Meghan Winters is a CIHR Applied Public Health Research Chair in Gender and Sex in Healthy Cities. She is a population health researcher leading intersectoral scholarship to understand how city design impacts mobility, safety, and health, and also equity considerations within cities’ policy and plans. She works with decision-makers and community groups at intersection of health, urban planning, and transportation to generate actionable evidence and tools to shape livable, sustainable, and equitable cities.
Meghan Winters est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche appliquée en santé publique des IRSC sur le genre et le sexe dans les villes en santé. Chercheuse en santé des populations, elle dirige des études intersectorielles visant à comprendre comment la conception des villes influe sur la mobilité, la sécurité et la santé, ainsi que les considérations d’équité prises en compte dans les politiques et les plans des villes. Elle travaille avec des décideurs et des groupes communautaires sur des questions touchant à la fois à la santé, à l’urbanisme et au transport afin de générer des preuves et des outils exploitables pour façonner des villes vivables, durables et équitables.
Prof. Elke Winter
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: sociologie, immigration, relations interethniques, citoyenneté, multiculturalisme, Canada, Québec, Europe
Induction Year: 2014
Elke Winter is a sociologist with expertise in Canadian and European societies. Her comparative studies on interethnic relations, multiculturalism and citizenship have earned her the reputation of leading expert in her field, as attested by several prestigious awards. She is an alumna of the German National Academic Foundation, the University of Ottawa’s Young Researcher of the Year, and a recipient of the Canadian Sociological Association’s John Porter Award.
Sociologue de formation, Elke Winter est une experte des sociétés canadienne(s) et européennes. Elle est désormais reconnue comme chef de file dans son domaine grâce à ses recherches comparatives sur les relations interethniques, le multiculturalisme et la citoyenneté, comme en témoignent les nombreux prix prestigieux dont elle a été récipiendaire. Ancienne boursière de la Fondation universitaire allemande, elle s’est également vue décerner le Prix jeune chercheuse de l’année de l’Université d’Ottawa et le Prix John Porter de la Société canadienne de sociologie.
Daniel Wise
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Geometry, Topology, Geometric Group Theory, 3-manifolds, Artin Groups
Induction Year: 2014
WISE, Daniel – Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
Daniel Wise is one of the world’s top geometric group theorists. His fundamental contributions stand at
the core of the most important development in geometry and topology since the proof of the Poincaré
Conjecture, namely the proof of Thurston’s virtually fibered conjecture for hyperbolic three-manifolds.
The profound impact and originality of Wise’s work have been recognized through several major awards, including
the Veblen Prize of the American Mathematical Society.
WISE, Daniel – Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University
Daniel Wise est un des meilleurs théoriciens des groupes géométriques au monde. Ses contributions
fondamentales sont au centre du développement le plus important en géométrie et topologie depuis la
preuve de la conjecture de Poincaré, a savoir celle de la conjecture virtuellement fibrée de Thurston sur les
trois-variétés hyperboliques. L’impact profond des travaux de Wise a été reconnus par plusieurs prix majeurs, dont le
Prix Veblen de l’American Mathematical Society.
Dr. Roy Wise
Affiliation: National Institute on Drug Abuse
Keywords: Addiction, reward, feeding, dopamine
Roy Wise has made important contributions to knowledge about the systems of the brain underlying rewarding properties of drugs. He was the first to formulate the hypothesis that drugs of abuse have as their common substrate the dopaminergic systems of the midbrain. He has combined behavioral and neurochemical techniques to determine the changes in this system that accompany drug self-administration. Wise's work has brought the study of drug abuse into the realm of the study of the brain mechanisms underlying natural rewards, and it has transformed both experimental and clinical approaches to drug abuse.
Dr. David Wishart
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Metabolomics, Structural Biology, Precision Medicine, Nanotechnology
Induction Year: 2017
WISHART, David - Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science, University of Alberta
David Wishart is a scientist at the University of Alberta. He has made important research contributions to structural biology and metabolomics. In the 1990s, he discovered fast and efficient methods to help determine protein structures. In the mid 2000s, he directed the Human Metabolome Project, a multi-year project that helped give birth to the field of metabolomics. The resources he created are now accessed by millions of users each year.
David Wishart est un scientifique à l'Université de l'Alberta. Il a apporté d'importantes contributions de recherche à la biologie structurale et à la métabolomique. Dans les années 1990, il a découvert des méthodes rapides et efficaces pour aider à déterminer les structures protéiques. Au milieu des années 2000, il a dirigé le Human Metabolome Project, un projet pluriannuel qui a aidé à donner naissance au domaine de la métabolomique. Les ressources qu'il a créées sont maintenant accessibles par des millions d'utilisateurs chaque année.
Dr. Sandra Witelson
Affiliation: McMaster University
Keywords: Neuroscience, cognition, neuroimaging, neuroanatomy, sex difference
Sandra Witelson, Professor of Psychiatry at McMaster University, has an international reputation for the scientific study of brain-behaviour relations. She has established a unique bank of human brains for which there are prospective neuropsychological data, and has discovered that there are both sex and handedness differences in the morphology of the corpus callosum and the temporal cortex. She has developed techniques for assessing functional cerebral asymmetries through tactual stimulation, and has related these to language disorders. Her interests in sexual differentiation have also led to research on the neurobiology of sexual preference, and to major contributions in developmental neurobiology.
Dr. Stephen Withers
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Enzymology, carbohydrates, mechanisms of reaction, glycosidases, proteins
Professor Stephen Withers is one of the foremost authorities on the operation of glycosidases, enzymes that catalyze the decomposition of carbohydrate polymers like cellulose. His strategy for trapping glycosidase reaction intermediates is used in many laboratories worldwide. Withers recently showed that the textbook mechanism for the enzyme lysozyme, a mechanism taught to many hundreds of thousands of students each year, is incorrect.
Prof. David Wolfe
Affiliation: Western University
Keywords: child abuse; domestic violence; violence prevention
Induction Year: 2018
WOLFE, David - Faculty of Education, Western University
Dr. David Wolfe is a psychologist specializing in issues affecting children and youth. He has pioneered new approaches to preventing many societal youth problems such as child abuse, bullying, relationship violence, and substance abuse through universal education programs. His Fourth R program is taught in over 5000 schools in Canada and the US, and has been identified as a promising violence prevention strategy by numerous reviews of evidence-based programs for youth.
Dr. David Wolfe est psychologue qui se spécialise dans les problèmes qui affectent les enfants et les jeunes. Il a commencé de nouvelles approches pour prévenir les problèmes sociaux chez les jeunes tels que les mauvais traitements infligés aux enfants. Brutalités, la violence dans les relations, et l’abus de substances à travers des programmes de l’éducation universelle. Son programme Fourth R est enseigné dans plus de 5000 écoles au Canada et aux États Unis, et a été identifié comme une stratégie prometteuse dans la prévention de la violence par nombreuses revues des programmes fondés sur des preuves.
H. Wolfart
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
H.C. Wolfart, University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba, has made an outstanding contribution to the study of human language. His writings draw on the classical languages (Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic) and modern European evidence as well as the Algonquian languages of North America; they cover a wide range of linguistic, philological, bibliographic, historical, and literary topics. He has studied the maintenance of language boundaries among nomadic and sedentary populations, and his investigations of spoken languages are complemented by studies of early records and the analytical principles embodied in them. His most significant contribution has been in the field of linguistic analysis, especially in the grammatical and semantic analysis of spoken texts. He is best known for his grammar of the Cree language (1973) and for text editions, published in the Cree original accompanied by a translation, which present and document one of the major indigenous literatures of Canada.
Robert Wolkow
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Scanning tunneling microscopy, silicon, surface science, nanotechnology, molecular devices
Robert Wolkow has made seminal contributions to the field of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). He performed the first atomic-scale study of a surface reaction, initiating a new field. He developed the first tunable temperature cryogenic STM and with it determined the structure of Si(l 00), solving a classic problem. He was first to capture the dynamics of silicon atoms settling in to epitaxial positions on a silicon surface. His direct observation of a precursor to chemical bond formation is a breakthrough. He has determined the absolute chirality of individual molecules. His work has substantially advanced the field of organic-silicon interfaces.
Alexander Wong
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Keywords: medical imaging, computational imaging, artificial intelligence
Induction Year: 2020
Alexander Wong is internationally recognized for his pioneering contributions to operational artificial intelligence and computational medical imaging. As a Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, his work on scalable and explainable deep learning aims at making AI technology accessible to everyone, and at gaining a deeper understanding in how neural networks think. A prolific innovator, his creative work in computational medical imaging has led to the invention of a new form of MRI designed for cancer detection, the first blood-flow imaging system for observing arterial and venous flow from a distance, and a spectral light-field fusion microscope without lenses.
Alexander Wong est reconnu sur le plan international pour ses contributions pionnières en intelligence artificielle opérationnelle et imagerie médicale informatisée. Titulaire d’une Chaire de recherche du Canada à la University of Waterloo, ses travaux sur l’apprentissage profond mesurable et explicable visent à rendre la technologie de l’intelligence artificielle accessible à tout le monde et à acquérir une meilleure compréhension de la manière de penser des réseaux neuronaux. Inventeur prolifique, ses travaux créatifs en imagerie médicale informatisée ont mené à la création d’une nouvelle forme d’IRM conçue pour la détection des cancers, le premier système d’imagerie du flux sanguin pour l’observation à distance des flux artériels et vénaux, et un microscope à lumière spectrale sans lentilles.
Wendy Wong
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Induction Year: 2021
Wendy H. Wong is the Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Civil Society and Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is an internationally-recognized, award-winning scholar who adopts a unique interdisciplinary perspective to study the organizational dynamics of collective action by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international human rights, and emerging technologies’ effect on politics and society. As Research Lead, Schwartz Reisman Institute, she is advancing human rights-based, data governance research.
Wendy H. Wong est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la gouvernance mondiale et la société civile et professeure de science politique à l’Université de Toronto. Chercheuse primée et reconnue au niveau international, elle adopte une perspective interdisciplinaire unique pour étudier la dynamique organisationnelle de l’action collective des organisations non gouvernementales (ONG), les droits humains internationaux et l’effet des technologies émergentes sur la politique et la société. En tant que directrice de recherche à l’Institut Schwartz Reisman, elle fait progresser la recherche sur la gouvernance des données fondée sur les droits humains.
Dr. Roderick Wong
Affiliation: University of Hong Kong
Keywords: Mathematics
Professor Wong is one of the very top leaders internationally in the important, widely cultivated, extensively applied and extraordinarily difficult field of asymptotic analysis. His work is characterized by great power, strict rigour, deep insight, imaginative originality, remarkable clarity and by wide-ranging applicablity within mathematics and to physics, engineering and statistics. In the asymptotics of integrals containing a parameter, subsuming such important transforms as those of Hankel, Hilbert, Kantorovich-Lebedev and Stieltjes, his novel methods yielded complete expansions and computable error bounds, all completely rigorously.
Gane Wong
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Induction Year: 2023
Gane Ka-Shu Wong is a pioneer in genomics, a new discipline that has impacted all of
life sciences. By leading first-in-kind projects like the rice genome and 1000 plants (1KP)
initiative, he created essential bioinformatics tools, released unprecedented amounts of
sequence data, and launched world-renowned organizations. These activities changed our
perceptions of large-scale sequencing strategies, revolutionized evolutionary studies of
biodiverse species, and led to novel treatments for retinal blindness.
Gane Ka-Shu Wong est un pionnier de la génomique, une nouvelle discipline qui a eu un impact sur l'ensemble des sciences de la vie. En dirigeant des projets inédits tels que celui sur le génome du riz et l'initiative 1000 plantes (1KP), il a créé des outils bio-informatiques essentiels, publié des quantités sans précédent de données de séquences et lancé des organisations de renommée mondiale. Ces activités ont changé notre perception des stratégies de séquençage à grande échelle, ont révolutionné les études de l'évolution de la biodiversité et ont conduit à de nouveaux traitements de la cécité rétinienne.