John Beattie is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of 18th Century social, constitutional and legal history. His "English Court in the Reign of George I" remains the standard study of court administration and life in the 18th Century. His monumental study, "Crime and the Courts 1660-1800" has established him as a pre-eminent scholar of the history of English crime and punishment. He has pioneered a field, presented new and challenging hypotheses, and elaborated innovative methods for the study of legal records. His work has made a major impact upon the study of crime, the criminal law, the courts and punishment throughout the English-speaking world.

A. Jacques Beaulieu a oeuvré en physique des ondes électromagnétiques tant en recherches fondamentales qu'appliquées. D'abord actif en micro ondes, où il conçut de nouveaux spectromètres à haute sensibilité, il s'orienta bientôt vers les lasers. Ses travaux de pionnier sur les lasers à gas à haute énergie et la découverte du laser CO2-TEA lui valurent une reconnaissance internationale soulignée d'honneurs tels que la médaille Archambault 1971 (ACFAS), un doctorat honorifique (U. de Moncton, 1972) et la médaille Thomas W. Eadie 1978 (Société royale du Canada). Il a ensuite dédié son travail au transfert technologique vers I'industrie, mettant sur pied un groupe de recherches industrielle en laser. Ses travaux sont maintenant orientés vers la mise au point de radars au laser qui intéressent plusieurs industries canadiennes.

J. Murray Beck is a distinguished and active scholar, with nine books, forty-nine biographies for the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography", and fifty other articles ranging across both scholarly and popular themes. One article on Joseph Howe he read to this society in 1964. His best known scholarly work is "The Government of Nova Scotia" (University of Toronto Press, 1957). In a more popular genre is his "Pendulum of Power: Canada's Federal Elections" (Scarborough, 1968); this wonderfully readable, even amusing book, is a work of considerable value, and in some important respects, a work of research in itself. Beck's scholarship is distinguished by an apparently effortless mastery of tangled and difficult issues, and to this analytical capacity is joined a remarkable flair for writing graceful and readable English. He completed a major two-volume biography of his fellow Nova Scotian, Jospeh Howe, in 1983 and a two-volume "Politics of Nova Scotia" in 1988.

Long Citation (for publication and press release) Clinical use of stem cells to treat incurable conditions such as Parkinson's disease, diabetes and breast cancer will be a reality in the near future because of the pioneering work of Leo Behie. He has developed new technology, reagents, and bioreactor protocols to effectively grow large numbers of rare stem cells outside the body, and direct the maturation of these stem cells to useful cell types. Successful transplantation of bioreactor expanded human neural stem cells into an animal model of Parkinson's disease has led to a groundbreaking clinical trial on human patients in collaboration with an international transplantation neurosurgeon. Short Citation (to be read at the Induction Ceremony) Clinical use of stem cells to treat incurable conditions such as Parkinson's disease, diabetes and breast cancer will be a reality in the near future because of the pioneering work of Leo Behie. Successful transplantation of bioreactor expanded human neural stem cells into an animal model of Parkinson's disease has led to a groundbreaking clinical trial on human patients in collaboration with an international transplantation neurosurgeon.