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Dr. Arthur Rigg
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Latin, medieval, text-editing, Anglo-Latin, philology
Deceased Date: 2019-01-07
For the past thirty years, Arthur George Rigg, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, has helped to keep alive the crucial field of Medieval Latin in Canada. The seven indispensable, pioneering books he has written have transformed our approaches to the central Middle Ages and defined the field of Medieval Latin for his contemporaries. His most recent book, Anglo- Latin Literature: 1066-1422 (1992) is the first proper history of this massive body of material. A French reviewer described this magnum opus as "un livre incontournable qui doit se trouver dans toute bibliothèque où travaillent des médiévistes."
Dr. Anthony Riley
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: Queen's University
Keywords: German literature
Editing
Alfred Döblin
20th century
The novel
Deceased Date: 2003-04-01
A.W. Riley, Professor of German at Queen's University, has served the world of scholars brilliantly as a translator, literary critic, bibliographer and editor. His publications have made a major contribution primarily to our knowledge of three important twentieth-century German novelists: Thomas Mann, Elisabeth Langgässer, and Alfred Döblin, but his erudition ranges widely and his interests are catholic. His bibliography of the writings of Langgässer is the foundation on which all future work on this author must build, and his recent appointment as the editor of the definitive edition of Döblin's work testifies to the high esteem in which he is held internationally.
Dr. Paul Roazen
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Intellectual history
Psychoanalysis
Political theory
Deceased Date: 2005-11-03
Paul Roazen is the leading student of the history of psychiatry in Canada and one of the most eminent scholars in his field in the world. In eight lucidly-written and thoroughly researched books already published and more in press, he has studied Freud's thought, his followers, his family and the way he analyzed his patients, and he has delved into the politics and histories - not history - of psychoanalysis. The Freud that emerges in his pages is a genius and a flawed character, a man linked to his time and ahead of it in many ways, but also one who made errors in theory and practice. Freud, to Roazen, is a human being.
Roazen is a scholar of great distinction and enormous energy. He has had enormous impact on the history of psychoanalysis around the globe, so much so that the 'enfant terrible' has turned into the widely praised 'homme sage', the best informed and most important historian of psychoanalysis of our time. He fully merits inclusion in Canada's national academy.
Eugène Roberto
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Deceased Date: 2017-09-29
Eugène Roberto, arrivé de France au Canada en 1962, y poursuit depuis une carrière universitaire qui se partage entre l'enseignement et la recherche. Il n'a cessé depuis 1958 de publier le résultat de ses recherches, soit en France soit au Canada. Il a en outre fondé trois collections aux Editions de l'Université d'Ottawa qui ont fait connaître plusieurs chercheurs qui oeuvrent dans le même domaine. Il a fondé en 1963 les « Cahiers canadiens Claudel » qui, après une douzaine de publications, est devenu un des lieux de recherche les plus réputés sur les études claudéliennes.
Eugène Roberto est aujourd'hui reconnu comme un des grands spécialistes des études sur Claudel et sur Gaston Miron. Ses recherches et ses publications font de lui un universitaire et un chercheur de grande classe.
J.A.L. (Archie) Robertson
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.
Keywords: Nuclear, safety, wastes, materials, science & technology
Deceased Date: 2018-02-20
From 1961 to 1975 Mr. J.A.L. Robertson has been a major contributor to Canada's nuclear power program through his research work on the irradiation behaviour of zirconium clad U02 fuel. These studies have covered deformation of fuel and cladding, diffusion of fission products in UO2, heat transfer between fuel and cladding, and the mechanical interaction between fuel and cladding. This work provided the scientific foundation for CANDU fuel.
During the last five years Mr.. Robertson was principal coordinator of AECL's presentations to the Ontario Royal Commission on Electric Power Planning and has applied his encyclopaedic knowledge of the nuclear option to the study of other energy systems. His formidable ability to logical analysis and his scientific integrity have played an important role in retaining he nuclear option.
The value of his work has been recognized internationally. He is the author of 5 papers and 1 book.
The Honourable R. Gordon Robertson
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Keywords: Global warming; northern development
Deceased Date: 2013-01-15
In the course of his ten years as Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Gordon Robertson has come to be recognized as the foremost public servant of the Government of Canada. He has served the Government of Canada continuously for over thirty years in posts that made increasing demands on his range of knowledge, his clear headedness, and his balanced judgement, and revealed his sure integrity. As Deputy Minister of Northern Affairs and National Resources, he proved his capacity to manage large affairs. As Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary of the Cabinet, he has been a wise and imperturbable counsellor of Prime Ministers, easing on to their shoulders the increasingly complex responsibilities of that office and searching for ways to make our
constitution work more effectively in federal-provincial relations. In finding time to become himself bilingual, he set a shining example of bilingualism in the Public Service of Canada. The Vanier Medal of the Institute of Public Administration, which he received in 1971, and the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Public Service of Canada given him in 1972 show the glad recognition of his work and his qualities.
Mr. Yves Roby
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Université Laval
Keywords: Histoire des États-Unis, Franco-Américains
Deceased Date: 2019-08-07
L'historien Yves Roby de l'Université Laval s'est taillé une belle renommée dans les milieux scientifiques grâce à l'exceptionnelle qualité de ses recherches, alliant érudition, analyse pénétrante et perspectives synthétiques.
Yves Roby a publié, sur l'histoire économique québécoise et sur l'histoire des Franco-américains,des résultats de recherche innovateurs qui ont profondément influencé la recherche depuis une vingtaine d'années. Sa production scientifique constitue une référence de base pour les chercheurs de plusieurs disciplines et en fait un expert recherché.
Il a publié plusieurs livres et articles qui ont reçu un accueil chaleureux de la critique scientifique et lui ont valu des honneurs prestigieux, dont le prix du Gouverneur général du Canada en 1972 et la médaille Tyrrell en 1996.
Mr. Réjean Robidoux
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Deceased Date: 2017-07-09
Professeur titulaire au département des lettres françaises de l'Université d'Ottawa, Réjean Robidoux est connu par ses travaux à la fois sur la littérature française et québécoise.
Livres publiés :
« Roger Martin du Gard et la religion » (1964);
« Le Roman canadien-français du XXe siècle » (en collaboration avec André Renaud, 1966);
« Le Traité du Narcisse d'André Gide » (1978);
« La Création de Gérard Bessette » (1987);
Émile Nelligan, « Poésies complètes 1896-1941 » (en collaboration avec Paul Wyczynski, 1991);
« Connaissance de Nelligan » (1992);
« Fonder une littérature nationale » (1994);
Louis Dantin, « Émile Nelligan et son oeuvre » (Édition critique, 1997);
Eugène Seers, « Franges d'autel » (1997);
André Guindon, « L'Habillé et le nu » (en collaboration avec Rosaire Bellemare, 1997).
Mrs. Régine Robin-Maire
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Montréal
Keywords: Culture européenne, culture soviétique, années trente, analyse du discours, théorie de la lecture, traduction littéraire
Deceased Date: 2021-02-03
Agrégée d'histoire et docteur ès lettres (Dijon), Régine Robin est actuellement professeur de sociologie de la littérature à l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Ses recherches en linguistique, en analyse du discours, en théorie littéraire et, récemment, en soviétologie, lui ont valu une réputation mondiale.
Régine Robin domine ainsi plusieurs disciplines en une oeuvre qui allie l'originalité à la force de synthèse. Elle est aussi la romancière du « Cheval blanc de Lénine » et de « La Québécoite ». Elle a traduit en français plusieurs romans de langue yiddish. Son ouvrage le plus récent, « Le Réalisme socialiste », lui a valu le Prix du Gouverneur général 1987.
Dr. Carl Robinow
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Deceased Date: 2006-10-20
Carl Franz Robinow was born in Hamburg (Germany) in 1909 and became a naturalized British subject in 1946. He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in the University of Hamburg in 1934. He then spent two years in the Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, and went to England in 1937 where he worked for the next ten years in London and in Cambridge. During this period his work involved the cytology of sponges, cytology of tissue cultures and life cycle of vaccinia virus, and the study of inclusion bodies. In England he started his work on the cytology of bacteria which has brought him world-wide renown and which has guided and stimulated the work of others in many countries. In 1948 he went to the United States as a Visiting Professor to four different universities and in 1949 accepted the appointment of Associate Professor of Bacteriology in the University of Western Ontario and became Professor there in 1956. The Royal Society of Canada awarded Dr. Robinow the Harrison Prize in 1957.
His outstanding contribution for which he is so widely known and honoured relates to his studies of microbial structure - in particular, the very significant contribution made to the understanding of the form behaviour and nature of the "nucleoids" or "chromatin bodies" of bacteria.