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Mr. Jean-Pierre Wallot
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
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
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.
Suning Wang
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Queen's University
Keywords: organoboron chemistry, blue emitters, photochromism, photoreactivity, OLEDs
Induction Year: 2015
Deceased Date: 2020-04-27
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WANG, Suning, Department of Chemistry, Queen's University
Suning Wang's innovative approaches to luminescent materials and inorganic chemistry have contributed to opening up a significant new research field: photo-responsive organoboron materials and chemistry. Her studies on the phenomena of photochromism, photoelimination and switchable luminescence of organoboron systems, together with her pioneering scholarship on blue fluorescent and blue phosphorescent emitters for organic light emitting diodes have reinvigorated research on organoboron photochemistry and organoboron-based materials chemistry worldwide.
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L’approche innovante de Sunning Wang aux matériaux luminescents ainsi qu’à la chimie inorganique a contribuée à l’ouverture significative de nouveaux champs de recherches: Les matériaux organoboriques photosensibles et leur chimie. Ses études des phénomènes de photochromisme, de photo-élimination et de luminescence interchangeable des systèmes organoboriques, de concert avec ses travaux pionniers sur les émetteurs en fluorescence bleue et phosphorescence bleue pour les diodes organiques émettrices de lumière ont revigorés la recherche sur la photochimie des organoboriques ainsi que sur la chimie des matériaux basée sur les organoboriques à travers le monde.
Dr. Donovan W.M. Waters
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Victoria
Deceased Date: 2023-09-09
Professor Waters is the pre-eminent scholar of the law of trusts in Canada and one of the most notable in the world. His first book, on the "Constructive Trust", published in 1964 before he came to Canada,
was the most searching and imaginative study of that subject at the time. His second, a monumental treatise of over 1000 pages on the "Law of Trusts in Canada", has established itself, since its publication in 1974, as a Canadian legal classic. The thoroughness of his research has made the reading of his works indispensable to trying to comprehend this very difficult, but extremely important, and uniquely common law, aspect of property management. The ease and lucidity of his prose have made enjoyable what might otherwise have been a formidable task.
Prof. Elizabeth Waterston
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Guelph
Keywords: Literature, Education, women's studies, history, children literature
Induction Year: 2011
Deceased Date: 2024-02-18
Dr. James Watson
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: National Research Council
Keywords: Molecular spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, symmetry
Deceased Date: 2020-12-18
Dr. Watson is distinguished for his work on the theory of molecular spectroscopy. His studies have led to simplifications of the fundamental Hamiltonian, recognition of specific symmetry properties, and a deeper understanding of the isotopic dependence of molecular parameters. An examination of centrifugal distortion effects led to a reduction in the number of parameters of asymmetric top molecules, and to the prediction of forbidden rotational spectra in certain non-polar molecules, including methane. His recent work includes the theory of the Jahn-Teller effect in the Rydberg states of H3 and D3, the assignment of the Schüler bands of NH4 and ND4 and the assignment of the Schuster bands of NH3 and ND3.
Dr. Ronald Watts
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: Queen's University
Keywords: Comparative and Canadian Federalism
Deceased Date: 2015-10-09
R.L. Watts is Canada's leading expert on comparative federalism. His "New Federations: Experiments in the Commonwealth" is a classic in the field. It has been followed by distinguished monographs, articles and chapters in collections on federalism in diverse settings.
He is regularly invited to lecture, be a resident scholar, present papers and design colloquia in numerous countries on five continents. He is the Past President of the International Association of Centres for the Study of Federalism.
Watts has also published significant work on post secondary education.
Dr. E. Roy Waygood
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Deceased Date: 2001-04-08
ERNEST ROY WAYGOOD, Department of Botany, University of Manitoba, is an outstanding teacher and an able investigator of the problems of plant metabolism, particularly those of the green leaf. He came to Winnipeg at a time of active concern over the renewed threat of wheat rust and has provided workers in that field with ever increasing knowledge of the metabolism of healthy leaves upon which an understanding of the diseased state must be based. His work on the metabolism of indole acetic acid, benzimidazole, and kinetin, the biosynthesis of nucleotides and porphyrins, the plant phosphorylases, and his current work on the biochemical aspects of photosynthesis, have met wide acclaim and establish him as an authority on the enzymes of leaves.