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Mr. Raymond Bartnikas
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec
Keywords: Solid and liquid dielectrics, gaseous discharges, plasmas, electrical insulation, electrical power apparatus and cables
Deceased Date: 2022-09-13
For sustained and substantial contributions to the science of electrical insulation as it bears on power engineering. His work has had a major impact on our understanding of coronas and dielectric losses in many solids, liquids and solid/liquid interfaces.
Dr. Zbigniew Basinski
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McMaster University
Deceased Date: 1999-08-12
Z. S. Basinski has long received international recognition among metal physicists for his many contributions to the understanding of processes involved in the deformation of metals. His attribution of work-hardening to the interaction of glide and forest dislocations is now generally accepted after 20 years of spirited controversy. Other problems on which he has made major contributions include: explaining deviations from the Cottrell-Stokes law, puzzling aspects in the deformation of b.c. cubic metals, solution hardening of f.c. cubic metals, and processes involved in fatigue failure. His deep understanding of many aspects of metal physics is acknowledged.
Dr. Gordon Baskerville
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Deceased Date: 2013-02-02
The published research of G. L. Baskerville has added substantively to understanding of the dynamics of development in stands of trees and in whole forests. The work has applied principles from more basic science to achieve representations of forest dynamics at the geographic scales and temporal horizons which characterize forest resources management. His work has converted improved understanding of natural systems dynamics into significant improvement in the setting of objectives, the design of management protocols to reach the objectives, and for implementing those protocols, all on the temporal and geographic scales that characterize forests.
Dr. David Bates
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Lung disease
Air pollution
Deceased Date: 2006-11-21
David Bates is distinguished not only as a teacher and physician but especially an investigator of human respiratory function. His method for a closed circuit mixing index developed in 1948 is still widely used. He perfected the carbon monoxide method for measuring the effects of disease of the lung and devised the powerful xenon 133 technique for assessing pulmonary ventilation and blood-flow, being the first to put these on a quantitative basis. He was the first to measure the effects of ozone, and its hazards in high flying aircraft. He is recognized in Amerlca and Europe as a leading authority on lung function in health and disease.
He has recently initiated epidemiological studies of the effect of air pollution on health which have been influential in terms of public policy.
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.