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Prof. Michael Batts
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Deceased Date: 2014-01-16
Professor Batts has enhanced our understanding of medieval German literature through critical editions, monographs, and numerous articles. His book on Gottfried von Straßburg displays his skill as a mediator between the poetry of medieval Germany and the modern English reader. His monumental edition of the Nibelungenlied has provided a firm basis for the study of the most famous of German epics. He is serving the world of learning as a bibliographer, as an inspiring teacher, as the Head of
the Department of German at The University of British Columbia, and as the editor of the only Canadian journal devoted to Germanic studies.
Dr. Alan Batten
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: National Research Council
Keywords: History of astronomy, science and religion
Deceased Date: 2024-07-30
Dr. Alan H. Batten is recognized as an authority on the properties of double stars and especially on the interpretation of spectroscopic observations of eclipsing stars. Current astronomical research on double stars centres on the flow of matter between and around close binary stars, its interaction with the system and the evolutionary processes involved in such transfer of mass. Dr. Batten has made major contributions to this subject, notably with his papers on U Cephei and B Lyrae - stars that have been studied for many years but for which Batten has given new and realistic interpretations of the observed phenomena.
Mr. Alain Baudot
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Histoire de l'opéra , littérature belge, littérature suisse, édition (publication, révision, maquerle
Deceased Date: 2021-05-04
Le Professeur Alain Baudot a été, depuis son arrivée à Toronto en 1966, l'une des personnes les plus importantes dans la création d'une vie culturelle francophone dans cette ville. Professeur d'université, musicien, coordinateur de conférences internationales, écrivain, éditeur de livres, ainsi que commentateur à la radio et à la télévision, il existe très peu d'activités culturelles en français dont, depuis 20 ans, il n'a pas été le promoteur.
L'excellence de ses initiatives culturelles, ainsi que la très haute qualité de son travail de traducteur, tout comme l'excellence de ses propres publications, font de lui le chef de file des professeurs de littérature française à Toronto. Il a reçu les palmes académiques de France, et est Officier de la Couronne de Belgique.
Dr. Janet Bavelas
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Victoria
Keywords: Face-to-face dialogue, psycho linguistics
Deceased Date: 2022-12-12
Janet Beavin Bavelas has shaped interdisciplinary research on human dialogue, both theoretically and experimentally. Beginning with a crucial theoretical contribution in 1967, she has long been an internationally recognized leader in her field, whose work has been translated into seven languages. Her continuing program of research is aimed at the unique features of language use in face-to-face dialogue and has thus far radically changed our understanding of nonverbal communication and of hitherto intractable puzzles such as motor mimicry and equivocation. This is due in no small measure to her highly original experimental work on the subtle microprocesses of face-to-face dialogue.
Mr. Bernardo Carlos E. Bazán
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: philosophie au moyen âge
Deceased Date: 2018-05-24
Carlos Bazán est professeur retraité au Département de Philosophie et ancien Doyen de la Faculté des Arts à l'Université d'Ottawa. Il est un spécialiste de la philosophie médiévale, reconnu par la Communauté savante internationale par ses communications dans les Congrès nationaux et internationaux, par ses articles dans les revues savantes prestigieuses et en particulier par ses ouvrages.
Il est auteur ou co-auteur de : «Trois commentaires anonymes sur le Traité de l'âme d'Aristote» (1971), «Siger de Brabant: Quaestiones in tertium De Anima; De Anima intellectiva; De Aeternitate mundi»
(1972), «Siger de Brabant : écrits de logique, de morale et de physique» (1974), «Les questions disputées et les questions quodlibétiques dans les Facultés de Théologie, de Droit et de
Médecine» (1985), de «S. Thomas de Aquino: Quaestiones disputatae» (1996) et de «Anonymi, Sententia super II et III De anima» (1998).
Il a publié une cinquantaine d'articles et de comptes rendus dans des revues savantes nationales et
internationales. Ces écrits de haute qualité ont donné au Doyen Bazán la reconnaissance internationale de la prestigieuse Commission Léonina de Rome dont il est membre et qui travaille à
l'édition critique de l'oeuvre de Saint Thomas d'Aquin.
J. Beattie
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: London police in eighteenth century
Deceased Date: 2017-07-12
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.
The Honourable Gérald Beaudoin
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Partage des pouvoirs, système parlementaire, charte canadienne des droits et libertés, réforme constitutionnelle, interprétation des lois
Deceased Date: 2008-09-18
Le professeur Beaudoin est un universitaire d'envergure et l'un de nos meilleurs constitutionnalistes. Toute sa carrière de juriste est marquée par cet attachement et cette discipline particulièrement délicate du droit public. Ses travaux auprès du Ministère fédéral de la justice, son enseignement de droit constitutionnel à l'Université d'Ottawa, sa participation à de nombreux congrès nationaux et internationaux, ses publications, très nombreuses, et ses recherches ont contribué à faire du professeur Beaudoin un expert sollicité en matière constitutionnelle par les organismes les plus importants tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger.
A. Jacques Beaulieu
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Keywords: Photonique, environnement
Deceased Date: 2014-08-19
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.
Mr. Paul Beaulieu
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Deceased Date: 2007-07-26
Mr. Guy Beaulne
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: Ministère des affaires culturelles (Québec)
Keywords: Mise en scène et réalisation radio et télévision
Critique dramatique
Comédien
Enseignant - animateur
Deceased Date: 2001-10-01
Guy Beaulne est un pionnier du développement de l'art dramatique au Québec et un représentant distingué du théâtre canadien dans divers milieux nationaux et internationaux. Sa carrière d'homme de théâtre revêt une remarquable unité d'action depuis une trentaine d'années.
On retrouve Guy Beaulne dans une multitude d'initiatives et de réalisations dramatiques. Son rayonnement s'exerce ou s'est exercé par la qualité de ses réalisations, notamment à la radio et à la télévision du réseau de l'État, au Montreal Repertory Theater, au Canadian Repertory Theatre, à divers festivals, au Mountain Play House, au Rideau Vert, au théâtre d'été Chantecler.
Il s'exerce aussi dans ses écrits de critique dramatique et dans un ouvrage intitulé : «Notre théâtre - conscience d'un peuple», qui a été imprimé en trois langues.
M. Guy Beaulne a été le récipiendaire d'une dizaine de prix et de distinctions pour l'excellence de
son oeuvre. Il est présentement Directeur général du Grand théâtre du Québec.
Dr. John Beck
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of California Los Angeles
Keywords: Geriatrics, gerontology, education development, research, health services research
Deceased Date: 2016-09-29
Dr. J. C. Beck is an outstanding internationally known research worker in Endocrinology. He has greatly advanced our knowledge of the mechanism of action of the pituitary growth hormone in man. He has done outstanding investigation on hormonal effects on metabolism. As a brilliant teacher and medical educator, he has farsighted and wise views. He has been President of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation and Vice-President of the Endocrine Society (U.S.A.). He is now Secretary-General of the International Society for Endocrinology and as such has done much to plan recent International Congresses in Endocrinology in London and Mexico.
Dr. J. Murray Beck
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Deceased Date: 2011-06-30
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.
Dr. Axel D. Becke
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Keywords: Theoretical chemistry, computational chemistry, quantum theory, computer science, materials science
Deceased Date: 2025-10-23
Axel Becke is a scientific leader noted for his work in the application of Density Functional Theory (DFT) to molecules. His computational technique (NUMOL) achieved a level of computational precision unmatched by others and it remains a unique and powerful DFT benchmarking tool. His discrete integration procedure has been adopted in whole or in part by a large number of software developers/vendors who have modified conventional programmes to accommodate DFT. For his work, Dr. Becke has received a number of awards including the Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the Noranda Lecture Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Queenès University Prize for Excellence in Research, and the Schroedinger Medal of the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists. He receives an impressively large number of citations for his publications. However, the real impact of his work is evident in the numerous areas where chemists and physicists have used his methodologies to compute molecular properties of a vast number of complex molecular systems to a degree of accuracy which only a few years ago would have been unthinkable. Research colleagues describe his research contributions as ‘marvelous examples' of theoretical chemistry at its best.