Vidyadhar P. Godambe is internationally recognized as a major influence on the development of statistics over the past five decades. He has made outstanding and innovative contributions to the theory of estimation, formulating the methodology of estimating functions, leading and stimulating its further development, and promoting its application to diverse areas.

Dr. Godson had a distinguished career at the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, winning ten scholarships and research awards. He entered the Meteorological Service in June 1942 and in 1954 was appointed Superintendent of Research, a position he now holds. Dr. Godson has had ninety-two meteorological papers accepted for publication in technical journals covering almost every field in atmospheric science from induced precipitation to solar terrestrial relations. Dr. Godson is a member or officer of numerous international meteorological and related organizations and has participated by invitation in eighteen important international symposia. Dr. Godson acts as an advisor to a large number of meteorological groups and associations in Canada. Dr. Godson has, through his own efforts and through his wise council, greatly advanced research programmes in meteorology both in Canada and throughout the world.

Alan Murray Goodwin (B.Sc. Queen's; M.Sc., Ph. D. Wisconsin) has established himself as an authority on the Canadian Precambrian through extensive field and laboratory study and publication, particularly with reference to the synthesis of Precambrian stratigraphy. His continuing study of Archean greenstone belts is adding new dimensions to our understanding of these complex assemblages of volcanic rocks. His work has also demonstrated some fundamental genetic relations between the several types of major mineral deposits found in these rocks and elucidated the sequence of igneous events which produced such piles of volcanic rocks in Archean time.

Myron J. Gordon has made distinctive theoretical and applied research contributions to the fields of finance, accounting, and several related aspects of public policy. His enduring legacies are the valuation of securities and the associated question of the cost of capital. This research was followed by important contributions to the analysis of the regulation of utilities and the debt-equity choices faced by firms. His extensive published research and doctoral supervision have added greatly to the study of finance in Canada and abroad. Among other honours, he was elected president of the American Finance Association in 1975.

Outstanding researcher into acid rain, biogeochemical cycles and ecology of peatlands, Eville Gorham wrote seminal papers on the impact of atmospheric processes on natural ecosystems. Born in Halifax 1925; M.Sc. Dalhousie; Ph.D. Univ. College, London. Canadian citizen, naturalized U.S.A. 1984. Professor Botany Univ. London 1950-54, Senior Scientific Officer, Freshwater Biological Association U.K. 1954-58; Univ. Toronto 1958-61; Prof. and Head, Dept. of Biol., Univ. Calgary 1965; Prof. Botany and Ecology Univ. Minnesota 1962-1998. Professor Emeritus 1999. Pioneering studies of acid rain in U.K. in 1955, smelter impacts at Sudbury on forest and lake vegetation and on lake chemistry, 1960-63. Discovery of mosses and lichens as accumulators of radioactive fallout 1958. Continuing studies of chemistry of northern peatlands, including role in carbon cycle and likely responses to climate warming. He is member of numerous panels, workshops and committees, in the Royal Society of Canada and the U.S. National Research Council. He presently is member of the Board on Water Science and Technology, U.S. National Research Council and its Committee on Hydrologic Science, as well as of the Council of Scientific Advisors, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass.

Dr. Allan Godfrey Gornall has made valuable contributions to fundamental biochemistry and to clinical chemistry. Basic work on intermediates in the biosynthesis of urea was followed by studies on liver function and the chemical pathology of jaundice. Subsequent investigations dealt with plasma proteins and the effect of protein intake on experimental liver injury. During the past 13 years his work has dealt mainly with adrenal and renal factors in hypertension. Dr. Gornall is well known and respected not only for outstanding contributions to research but for the excellence of his teaching and for unselfish service to his professional associates as an efficient executive officer, in various roles, in local and national bodies.