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Walter Bushuk
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Keywords: Wheat quality, gluten protein structure and function
Deceased Date: 2017-10-14
Bushuk's early work with Winkler at McGill produced new information on the role of H bonds in dough structure and rheology. With Benoit of Strasbourg, he developed the theory for the relationship of copolymer composition and its light scattering properties. His work on gliadin has led to a method for 'fingerprinting' wheat varieties for identification required in registration and wheat grading. He led the team that discovered the high milling yield and exceptional blending capacity of Glenlea - Canada's first utility wheat.
Dr. William Buyers
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: National Research Council
Keywords: Dynamics of solids, magnetism, superconductivity, neutron scattering
Deceased Date: 2021-10-26
Dr. Buyers has made, primarily through the use of neutron scattering, extensive and crucial contributions, both theoretical and experimental, to our knowledge of the structure and the excitations of condensed matter, in particular of magnetic excitations in both ordered and disordered crystals. His work on solitons in CsCoBr3 and on magnetic properties of uranium compounds is especially noteworthy. He has made pioneering studies of phonon-phonon interactions, the structure of liquid neon, structural phase transitions in antifluorite crystals, and lithium intercalation in layered compounds. He has also developed many innovative experimental techniques for both neutron scattering and positron annihilation. He made the first experimental discovery of the mass gap in quantum integral-spin chains.
Dr. Stanley Bywater
RSC Fellow,
Deceased Date: 2003-07-15
Bywater joined the staff of the Division of Applied Chemistry in 1950 to initiate an activity in Polymer science - a subject which at that time was virtually non-existent in Canadian universities. His work has dealt mainly with the elucidation of the mechanisms of the numerous types of polymerization reactions. This is detailed in his publication list. His success can be assessed by 6 - 8 expenses paid invitations to be a featured speaker at conferences on polymer chemistry in various parts of Europe and North America, his representation on editorial boards of polymer journals and his being a program chairman and a council member of the Gordon Research Conferences.
The Honourable Monique Bégin
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Systèmes de santé, déterminants sociaux de la santé, politiques sociales
Deceased Date: 2023-09-08
Monique Bégin, ex-doyenne, Faculté des sciences de la santé, Université d'Ottawa, a laissé sa marque sur la société canadienne dans les domaines de la santé, des politiques sociales, de l'égalité des femmes et de l'éducation. En tant que ministre de la Santé nationale et du Bien-être social, elle a raffermi le système d'assurance-santé canadien.
Secrétaire générale de la Commission royale sur la situation de la femme au Canada, elle a aussi contribué à l'amélioration de la vie des femmes par l'enseignement et par ses nombreux discours et publications.
Elle fut coprésidente de la Commission royale sur l'éducation en Ontario, qui a institué des changements majeurs dans le système d'éducation de cette province.
Prof. Alan Cairns
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Keywords: Aboriginal, constitution, charter
Deceased Date: 2018-08-27
Alan Cairns' publications, positions, and work all testify to a vigorous and productive mind, of remarkable range. His first book was his Oxford D. Phil. thesis, "Prelude to Imperialism: British Rections to Central African Society, 1840-1890" (London, 1965.) His second, with three other scholars, was a survey of the needs and problems of the Indians of Canada, published by the Queen's Printer in 1967. ln 1971 he defended the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in a long and magisterial article, 'The Judicial Committee and its Critics', in the "Canadian Journal of Political Science". He was then Visiting Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland; but his home has always been the University of British Columbia since his first university appointment, and where he has been Chairman of the Department since 1973. He is currently President-elect of the Canadian Political Science Association for 1976-1977.