Wayne Nesbitt has made outstanding contributions to geochemical weathering both at the macro-scale and more recently at the nano-scale. His research has changed the emphasis of the way Sedimentary Petrogenesis is taught today. ------------------ NESBITT, H. Wayne –Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario Wayne Nesbitt has made outstanding contributions to geochemical weathering both at the macro-scale and more recently at the nano-scale. His major papers between 1978 and 1995 address the relations between chemical weathering of the crust, and recent and ancient climatic conditions (of great importance to the global warming debate). These papers have changed the emphasis of the way Sedimentary Petrogenesis is taught today. Most of his research since 1994 addresses the detailed reactions at mineral surfaces using modern surface sensitive probes. These most recent studies are fundamental to all recent dissolution studies of minerals in aqueous solution.

As an ecologist, Josh Neufeld characterizes microbial communities in terrestrial, aquatic, and host-associated habitats. By developing and combining cultivation-dependent and molecular techniques, his lab explores the “microbes that matter” to connect these novel microorganisms with the important roles that they play in their communities. His passion for microbiology and its communication has resulted in authorship of a microbiology textbook, multiple teaching awards, and service as Chief Editor for The ISME Journal.

Josh Neufeld, en tant qu’écologiste, caractérise les communautés microbiennes dans les habitats terrestres, aquatiques et associés à l’hôte. En développant et en combinant des techniques moléculaires et dépendantes de la culture, son laboratoire explore les « microbes qui comptent » afin de faire le lien entre ces nouveaux micro-organismes et les rôles importants qu’ils jouent au sein de leurs communautés. Sa passion pour la microbiologie et sa communication l’ont amené à rédiger un manuel de microbiologie, à recevoir de nombreuses récompenses pour son enseignement et à être rédacteur en chef de la revue scientifique ISME.

Neil Nevitte is one of the most distinguished comparative political scientists of his generation. A leader in the long-running Canadian Election Surveys, one of the greatest empirical social science projects in Canadian history, Nevitte developed the technique of examining the framework of values that shapes electoral choice and has designed a widely acclaimed system to detect electoral fraud in fragile democracies.

Dwight Newman is one of the world’s leading experts on constitutional law and Indigenous rights. A Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair, Dr. Newman is the foremost scholar on the Canadian doctrine of the duty to consult Aboriginal peoples. A noted public intellectual, Dr. Newman’s work has been cited repeatedly in scholarship, in several Supreme Court of judgments, and by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report.

Dwight Newman est l’un des grands experts du monde sur le droit constitutionnel et les droits des Indigènes. Professeur en droit et Chaire de recherche du Canada, Prof Newman est le plus grand spécialiste de la doctrine canadienne sur le devoir de consulter les peuples autochtones. Un illustre intellectuel public, les travaux du Prof Newman ont été cités à répétition dans l’érudition, dans plusieurs jugements de la Cour suprême, et par le rapport final de la Commission de vérité et de réconciliation.

Long Citation Professor Ng has made exceptional seminal contributions in catalysis, green chemistry and engineering for the chemical, petrochemical and oil industry. She pioneered a new method to determine the Co-C bond dissociation energy which helps to elucidate the role of Co in vitamin B12 catalysis. She is a world leader in catalytic distillation, a novel green reactor technology which is highly energy efficient. She invented catalysts and new green processes, one of which, the Avada process for the production of ethyl acetate, won the Best Green Chemistry and Engineering Process award from the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002. Short Citation Professor Ng has made exceptional seminal contributions in catalysis, green chemistry and engineering. She is a world leader in catalytic distillation, a novel green reactor technology which is highly energy efficient. She invented catalysts and new green processes, one of which won the Best Green Chemistry and Engineering Process award from the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2002.

John Nichols is the most distinguished contemporary student of the Ojibwe language, the most widely spoken aboriginal language in Canada. He combines unparalleled fieldwork experience with extensive archival work. Dr. Nichols is virtually unique in the constellation of interpretive skills necessary to decipher this complex historical record. Moreover, he is committed to making this scholarship useful to contemporary Ojibwe communities and individuals. Dr. Nichols has prepared critical editions, dictionaries and philological papers which set the standard for linguistic and ethnohistoric work on non-Indo-European languages. His practical work as an expert witness in land claims cases, in preparing Ojibwe language teaching materials, and in bibliographic documentation of current work in Ojibwe all make a major contribution to Canadian society as well as to linguistic scholarship.

Morten Nielsen, the David Chadwick Smith Chair in Economics and CRC in Time Series Econometrics at Queen’s University, is a leader in the field of econometrics (development of methods for statistical analysis of economic data) and recognized internationally for his contributions to time series econometrics. His work on vector autoregressive models and fractional integration in econometrics has garnered international acclaim and is likely to have substantial impact on empirical economics.

Morten Nielsen, titulaire de la chaire David Chadwick Smith en économie et d’une chaire de recherche du Canada en économétrie des séries chronologiques à la Queen’s University, est un chef de file dans le domaine de l’économétrie (développement de méthodes destinées aux analyses statistiques de données économiques) et est mondialement reconnu pour ses contributions à l’économétrie des séries chronologiques. Ses travaux sur l’analyse d’autorégression vectorielle et l’intégration fractionnaire en économétrie ont acquis une renommée mondiale et auront probablement un impact considérable sur l’économie empirique.

PETER N. NIKIFORUK, Dean, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, has made important contributions to the field of automatic control systems. His main areas of research are adaptive and electrohydraulic control systems. He pioneered analytic and experimental work on the response of nonlinear control systems to random inputs, and was one of the first to perform closed loop digital simulations. More recently, he and co-workers contributed to broad area of frequency and time domain response of control systems. He has published or co-authored over 250 papers, several of which have received prizes - the most recent was the Kelvin Premium from the Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK).

Pendant plus de vingt ans, en tant que chercheur universitaire, Monsieur Jorge Niosi a réalisé des recherches sur divers aspects de l'organisation sociale et économique des entreprises canadiennes. Ses travaux (dix livres, près de trente articles dans des revues scientifiques, prèes de vingt contributions à des ouvrages collectifs, plus de trente communications scientifiques), publiés au Canada et à l'étranger, lui ont valu une réputation internationale, ont été abondamment cités, et ont fait connaître notre pays dans les milieux scientifiques outre-mer, tout en améliorant notre propre compréhension du Canada.