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Dr. Albert Bregman
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Organization, perception, psychology, hearing, schemas
Deceased Date: 2023-05-18
With graduate degrees from Toronto and Yale, Bregman's early work in Harvard and McGill issued in important research on the role of semantics in memory and in language learning. Almost 25 years ago he began work on audition. He created the field of auditory scene analysis; the theory of how the percetual systems of humans and other animals can derive from auditory stimulation a useful description of the sources of the sounds even when they are mixed and interleaved with other sounds. His work has yielded auditory analogues of the Gestalt principles established for vision and has connected these ideas with those in computer vision, in speech perception, and in music. His "Auditory Scene Analysis" (MIT Press) 1990 has received the highest international acclaim.
Albert Breton
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Federalism, environment, multijuralism
Deceased Date: 2016-02-13
Professor Breton addresses fundamental social questions with the tool of economic analysis. He is best known for the development and use of economic theory to analyse political phenomena over a decade beginning with a widely noted article in the "Journal of Political Economy" on 'The Economics of Nationalism' in 1964 to his recent book on "The Economics Theory of Representative Government". He is also an authoritative writer in public finance and monetary economics. In addition, Professor Breton is an influential adviser of government and a link between English and French speaking social scientists in Canada.
William Bridger
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Alberta, Western University
Keywords: Enzyme structure, enzyme function, ell biology, mitochondria, research administration
Deceased Date: 2014-12-18
Dr. Bridger's fine international reputation rests on his pioneering research on succinyl-CoA synthetase, discovering the a and B subunits of this enzyme and their unique properties. This led him to enunciate and prove the principles of substrate synergism and catalytic cooperativity. After explicating the catalytic mechanism and role of the subunits in renaturation, he cloned the gene for the cytoplasmic precursor molecule and elucidated the mechanism for mitochondrial import. Past secretary and president of the Can. Biochem. Soc., he received its Ayerst award in 1980. He continues his leadership roles as recently elected Chairman of his Department.
Mr. John Brierley
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: McGill University
Deceased Date: 2001-12-15
John E. C. Brierley est l'un des civilistes les plus réputés au Canada, notamment dans les domaines de l'histoire du droit, du droit civil de la famille, des successions et des fiducies, de même que du droit de l'arbitrage national et international.
Dans chacune de ces matières, il s'est distingué tout à la fois par la qualité de son enseignement, l'originalité de ses recherches et l'autorité de ses publications, qui ont été maintes fois citées par les tribunaux et notamment par la Cour suprême du Canada.
Ayant participé activement à la réforme du droit civil, Brierley, au long de sa carrière, s'est toujours fait, au Québec comme au Canada et à l'étranger, l'ardent défenseur de la culture juridique canadienne d'inspiration française.
Jean Briggs
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Keywords: Emotions, values, lexicography, socialization, play
Deceased Date: 2016-07-27
Jean Briggs, award-winning author, is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the development of psychological anthropology. Her work among the Inuit has been remarkable for insights into the language and uses of emotion in micro-social contexts. Her latest book uses her Inuit ethnography to portray how a child's confrontations with adult-orchestrated contradictions are preparatory learning about the world.
Dr. Christopher Brion
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Electronic structure of molecules
Deceased Date: 2022-11-08
Christopher E. Brion is world-renowned as a leading authority in the field of Electron Spectroscopy. He has developed Electron Impact Coincidence techniques to simulate Photoabsorption, Photoionization and Photoelectron Spectroscopy. With it he has made outstanding original contributions to the understanding of the electronic structure of molecules.
He has also employed the electron impact method for the direct measurement of the electron density in individual molecular orbitals. This latest work is the most significant recent advance in the experimental testing of molecular orbital quantum mechanical calculations. It has provided much important new information concerning the nature of electron structure chemical bonds, and the orbital model in chemistry.
Dr. George Britnell
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Deceased Date: 1961-10-14
Mr. Germain Brière
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Droit civil
Rigueur
Précision
Prise en considération des faits sociaux
Rapport avec la morale
Deceased Date: 2004-04-23
Germain Brière, professeur de droit civil à l'Université d'Ottawa, est l'un des grands civilistes contemporains. Maître de juristes, son enseignement a grandement débordé les salles de cours car, par ses écrits, - les neuf éditions de son ouvrage « Les successions ab intestat », les huit des « Libéralités », ainsi que les éditions postérieures portant les titres « Précis sur les successions » et « Donations, substitutions et fiducie », (1988) et les traités sur les successions rédigés après l'adoption du nouveau code civil du Québec (1994 et 1997) - il a touché presque toutes les générations de futurs juristes qui ont fréquenté les facultés québécoises depuis 1957. Son influence ne s'est pas limitée aux étudiants, l'ensemble de la communauté juridique profite de sa science et de son expérience. Maître de juristes il l'a été aussi au niveau des études graduées : une demi-douzaine de ses dirigés sont aujourd'hui professeurs dans les facultés de droit. Peu de juristes québécois peuvent en dire autant.
Collaborateur assidu de nombreuses revues juridiques, conférencier recherché, notamment dans les congrès internationaux, il a exercé un rôle de pionnier dans l'interprétation des réformes du Code civil. Il a aussi apporté une contribution importante à l'administration universitaire comme directeur des études (1960-62), doyen (1965-67), secrétaire général (1972-73) et secrétaire (1970-72) et (1979-83 et 85-88), tantôt à Ottawa, tantôt à Chicoutimi et tantôt à Montréal.
Dr. Bertram Brockhouse
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McMaster University
Deceased Date: 2003-10-13
B.N. Brockhouse's invention of the triple axis neutron spectrometer created a new field of spectroscopy and made possible for the first time accurate and detailed information concerning the excitations of condensed matter. Having created this versatile tool, he has applied it to a wide range of problems of enormous importance to physics. He was the first to measure the life-time of short wave-length phonons, to determine the time-dependent self and pair-correlation functions in liquids, to convincingly demonstrate the existence of phonons and magnons, to measure the dispersion curves of spin waves, to observe the 'Kohn anomalies' and to apply them to studies of the Fermi surface. His work has illumined the work of a host of other experimental and theoretical physicists in the field of solid state physics.
Mr. Jean-Paul Brodeur
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Deceased Date: 2010-04-26
La réputation du criminologue Jean-Paul Brodeur dépasse largement les frontières du Canada. Il est criminologue au plein sens du terme. Il vient de la philosophie, apportant avec lui des préoccupations épistémologiques si importantes à l'époque de changements qualitatifs qui surviennent dans l'ordre social et dans celui de la pensée.
En vingt années de production intellectuelle intensive, il a abordé maints problèmes touchant l'institution policière et l'institution judiciaire, soit à partir de l'observatoire détaché qu'est l'université, soit en s'impliquant directement comme directeur de recherche d'importantes commissions d'enquêtes tant provinciales que fédérales.
Sa contribution peut-être la plus importante est le rapport qui fait le point sur le «sentencing» et suggère des recommandations dont le gouvernement fédéral s'inspire largement dans son projet législatif.
Il est membre de la Commission scientifique de la Société internationale de criminologie. Comme directeur du Centre international de criminologie comparée, il contribue brillamment au maintien et à l'expansion d'une tradition scientifique qui ont rendu la criminologie de l'Université de Montréal synonyme de qualité, d'ouverture d'esprit, de pluralisme.
Dr. Adrian Brook
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Chemistry, computing
Deceased Date: 2013-07-10
Dr. Brook has an international reputation in organosilicon chemistry. His extensive studies of silanes bearing functional groups have resulted in important new synthetic methods and in the elucidation
of the nature of the bonding in organosilicon compounds. He discovered the rearrangement of a-hydroxysilanes to silyl ethers, and his investigation of the mechanism of this reaction led to the first
demonstration of the absolute configuration of asymmetric silanes. His work on the rearrangement of acylsilanes to siloxycarbenes has culminated in the discovery of a highly versatile method for the
generation and isolation of a stable compound containing the elusive silicon-carbon double bond.
Dr. John Brosnan
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Keywords: B Vitamins, Creatine, Amino Acids, Metabolism
Induction Year: 2009
Deceased Date: 2024-12-04
John Brosnan has discovered important basic mechanisms in amino acid metabolism that also address crucial clinical issues. His discoveries have led to novel approaches for the preservation of organs for transplantation.
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BROSNAN, John T. –Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University
John Brosnan has discovered important basic mechanisms in amino acid metabolism that also address crucial clinical issues. He discovered the mechanism of regulation of circulating homocysteine levels. His concept of methylation demand has led to novel approaches to reduce those elevated homocysteine levels that can contribute to stroke, Alzheimer's disease and diabetic complications. He discovered mechanisms of regulation of the synthesis and catabolism of arginine, the NO precursor. His work on creatine is particularly important for infant nutrition and catabolic illnesses, while his discovery that renal function is protected by amino acids has led to novel approaches for the preservation of organs for transplantation.