Dr. Claudine Simson has made significant and innovative contributions to the fields of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Intellectual Property. She provided technical leadership in Canada's largest Research and Development organization, and was a key figure in leading critical Intellectual Property initiatives and establishing Advanced Research Programs world wide, particularly with universities, government laboratories, research consortia and research institutions.

LONG David Sinclair is an outstanding Canadian physicist with an international reputation for his work in nuclear and particle physics, particularly his leadership in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) project. He is the Deputy Director of SNO and the leader of a new International Facility for Underground Science that will maintain Canada's leading role in Particle Astrophysics. His scientific leadership and technical accomplishments in experimental design and ultra-low radioactivity systems were crucial to the major scientific success of SNO. He is a Professor of Physics at Carleton University and a Senior Research Scientist at TRIUMF. SHORT David Sinclair is an outstanding Canadian physicist with an international reputation for his work in nuclear and particle physics, particularly his leadership in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) project. He is the leader of a new International Facility for Underground Science that will maintain Canada's leading role in Particle Astrophysics.

Pekka K. Sinervo, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, was a leader of the team credited with discovering the top quark, one of the 12 fundamental building blocks of nature. He has made precise measurements of the properties of top and bottom quarks and is currently a proponent of the ATLAS experiment to unveil the origins of mass in our world. He has played important roles in the cultivation and advancement of physics research and education in Canada, e.g., by chairing the NSERC/Canadian Association of Physicists review of Canadian subatomic physics and the NSERC Reallocation Steering Committee on Subatomic Physics.

LONG Dr. Bhagirath Singh has made outstanding contributions to immunology and autoimmunity that have allowed a better understanding of the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes mellitus and its therapy. Dr. Singh delineated the fundamental role of antigenic protein processing and presentation in the initiation of T lymphcyte-dependent adaptive immune responses. He also demonstrated the preventative and therapeutic potentials of modulating the cytokine environment in the initiation and progression of autoimmune-mediated destruction of pancreatic islet cells and the establishment of diabetes mellitus. SHORT Bhagirath Singh has made outstanding contributions to immunology and autoimmunity. He demonstrated the preventative and therapeutic potentials of modulating the cytokine environment in the initiation and progression of autoimmune-mediated destruction of pancreatic islet cells and the establishment of diabetes mellitus.

LONG CITATION John Sipe has made original contributions to our theoretical understanding of the optical properties of semiconductors and metals. He is widely known for his pioneering work to understand the linear and nonlinear optical properties starting from the quantum theory of electrons in solids. Dr. Sipe has also explained several novel responses of solids to high light intensities, such as the influence of laser coherence on the patterns formed on surfaces in laser-induced melting, the transmission properties of structured optical fibres at high laser intensity, and how semiconductors change the frequency of light through optical harmonic generation. His work has had significant impact on the telecommunications industry. Prof. Sipe is one of Canada's most cited physicists, and is also recognized as a gifted classroom lecturer. SHORT CITATION John Sipe has made original contributions to our theoretical understanding of the optical properties of semiconductors and metals. He is widely known for his pioneering work to understand quantitatively the linear and nonlinear optical properties starting from the quantum theory of electronic excitations in solids. His work has had significant impact on the telecommunications industry and he is one of Canada's most highly cited physicists.

Professor K.W. Michael Siu is one of Canada's foremost bioanalytical and biophysical chemists and an exceptional mass spectrometrist with an outstanding record of innovation and accomplishment. He has made most significant contributions to understanding the structures, energetics, and ionization and gas-phase chemistries of protonated and metalated peptides. ------------------ SIU, K.W. Michael –Department of Chemistry, York University Professor K.W. Michael Siu is one of Canada's foremost bioanalytical and biophysical chemists and an exceptional mass spectrometrist with an outstanding record of innovation and accomplishment. He has made most significant contributions to understanding the structures, energetics, and ionization and gas-phase chemistries of protonated and metalated peptides as well as peptide radical ions, developing new mass spectrometry (MS) instrumentation in collaboration with Canadian industry, and developing innovative MS technologies and methodologies for proteomics, especially in the discovery, identification, verification and quantification of protein biomarkers for better diagnostics and prognostics of cancers.

Dr. Emil Skamene is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of genetic analysis of complex traits of the major diseases of adulthood. His work has been motivated by an abiding interest in the genetic regulation of susceptibility and resistance to diseases which include tuberculosis, malaria, atherosclerosis, and cancer. His interests may be broadly divided into two areas: the identification of host resistance genes and the isolation of their protein products, and the phenotypic expression of host resistance genes at the immunological level. The first major fruits of his efforts were in the discovery of the Pcg host resistance gene in the 1980's and the culmination in this work in the cloning of the murine Bcg gene in 1993. Much more of the same is yet to come.

Mark Skinner is a health, rural and social geographer who is making vital contributions to scholarship in Canada. He is a thoughtful practitioner whose primary research interests are aging communities, health care and volunteerism, with particular attention to rural people and places. Featuring community-based research in Canada and internationally, his work contributes to the fields of rural aging, rural health, social gerontology, health and social care, and the voluntary sector.

Mark Skinner est un géographe à l’avant-garde des recherches sur le vieillissement rural au Canada. En tant que titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en vieillissement rural, en santé et en soins sociaux, il est une autorité internationale de pointe sur le rôle évolutif du bénévolat pour soutenir les personnes plus âgées et entretenir les collectivités vieillissantes. Reconnu comme un créateur de capacités novatrices en recherche communautaire, il est internationalement reconnu pour ses contributions à la géographie de la santé, à la gérontologie sociale et à la santé rurale.

Gordon Slade is the world's leading expert in the use of the lace expansion. With Takashi Hara, he has used this technique to solve a series of difficult and important problems in statistical mechanics. He has proved "mean field" behaviour of the self-avoiding random walk above the critical dimension of 4, and of percolation in sufficiently high dimensions. Working with his student Eric Derbez, Slade has also connected two quite distinct areas of probability by proving that, above the critical dimension of 8, lattice trees converge to the integrated super-Brownian excursion.

Brian Slattery, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, is a legal scholar who rejected the conventional, Eurocentric doctrine that recognized the reception of English and French law into Canada, but made no room for Aboriginal rights. He has proposed a novel theory of Aboriginal rights and their relationship to federal and provincial laws, which has now been accepted by courts as well as by scholars. The work has transformed the way in which scholars think about the foundations of the legal system, and placed Aboriginal rights on a secure legal footing.