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Dr. Victor Graham
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Eclectic
Scholarly
Authoritative
Comprehensive
Innovative
Deceased Date: 1999-11-25
Victor E(rnest) Graham, B.A., University of Alberta, Rhodes Scholar, B.A. Oxford University, Ph.D. Columbia Univeristy. Able teacher of French: University of Alberta, University of Michigan, University of Toronto (University College), Professor since 1960. Senior Fellow, Canada Council. Active in musical life and French culture of the community; recognized leader in organization, direction and planning of academic affairs, both undergraduate and graduate; distinguished Renaissance scholar, internationally known for his 7-volume critical edition of the works of Philippe Desportes; productive as well in the field of modern French language and literature, in which he is about to publish an important study: "The Imagery of Proust".
Dr. Angus Graham
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Molecular biology, economics
Deceased Date: 2008-08-04
Professor A.F. Graham is a leading scientist in the field of virus biochemistry. In 1949, he was the first to show the incorporation of a radio-isotope (32p) into a purified mammalian virus. His studies of the break-down phenomenon of phages had very important impact on the concepts of the mutual exclusion effect.
Through Dr. Graham and his group's efforts, as well in Philadelphia as in Montreal, human reoviruses are among the best known mammalian viruses, genetically and biochemically.
Throughout his career, Dr. Graham was actively involved in teaching at Universities of Edinburgh, Pennsylvania, Toronto and McGill. Presently, he is Professor and Chairman of Biochemistry at McGill University.
Dr. William Graham
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Deceased Date: 2021-02-26
Graham, as well as being a major force in the moulding in inorganic /organometallic chemistry within this Country over the last 20 years, has an outstanding international reputation in this area and he has been also a foremost ambassador worldwide for the Canadian Chemistry scene. His recent discoveries on activation of carbon-hydrogen bonds in saturated hydrocarbons, including methane, a long recognized problem in homogeneous catalysis, by the use of platinum metal complexes are truly remarkable and pioneering studies that will be strongly influential in the future development of this extremely exciting topic.
Dr. Edmond Granirer
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Functional and harmonic analysis
Deceased Date: 2020-08-31
Edmond Granirer is an outstanding abstract analyst. He is perhaps best known for his penetrating studies on invariant means on semi-groups, a field in which he is the present day leader. In addition, he has made significant contributions to many other areas of analysis including convexity and the structure theory of convolution and Fourier algebras.
Dr. William Grant
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Biosystematics, genetics, cytogenetics, mutagenesis
Deceased Date: 2011-10-06
Professor Grant is the world authority on the genetics and biosystematics of 'Lotus corniculatus' and has made many outstanding contributions of international recognition to plant biosystematics and cytogenetics. He has carried out pioneering studies on the use of higher plant species for testing and monitoring for mutagenic effects of environmental pollutants. He has received major national and international honors, has been a sought-after speaker around the world (including a Nobel Symposium in Sweden), has been a consultant to and chairman of many organizations and professional societies, and has been on the editorial board and editor of several journals such as the "Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology" (now "Genome").
Dr. James Gray
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Keywords: 18th Century literature and history, editing
Deceased Date: 2012-11-27
Creative scholar, editor, academic administrator, James Gray is internationally recognized as an authority on eighteenth century English literature-. His book on the sermons of Samuel Johnson and his edition of'Johnson's religious writings are notable contributions to scholarship. As a member of the Executive Committee of the Yale University edition of Johnson's works, Professor Gray has a continuing influence on eighteenth century studies. Before coming to Dalhousie where he became Dean of Arts and Science, Professor Gray was prominent in the educational life of the Province of Quebec and is a member of major national academic committees and organizations in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. His extensive publications are in the fields of Literary Criticism, Aesthetics, Biography and Communications.
Dr. Christopher Gray
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Guelph
Deceased Date: 2022-12-15
Chris Gray is a leading Theoretician in the fields of molecular physics and molecular liquids, who has made many outstanding contributions. These include the effects of intermolecular forces on the spectral lines of molecules, and the perturbation theory for the structure of molecular liquids and more recently of polar liquids. The success of his theorectical work in comparisons with experimental results have been striking and have given him his current leadership position in this field. Moreover, his ability to achieve similar successes over a very wide range of properties of molecular liquids has been a notable feature of his career.
Prof. Leslie Green
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: War law, terrorism, human rights, U.N., public international law
Deceased Date: 2011-11-27
Leslie C. Green, University Professor at the University of Alberta, is one of the most prolific international legal scholars in the English speaking world. Following a distinguished academic career in England and in the Far East, he came to Canada in 1965 and has continued his prodigious writings and participation in international conferences. His vigorous style reflects his deep commitment to law as an instrument for promoting justice and respect for human rights in the international legal order. He has produced several books and some 330 articles and notes in legal and international journals throughout the world.
Dr. H. J. Greenwood
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Geology, geochemistry, music
Deceased Date: 2026-02-16
Hugh John Greenwood, Associate Professor of Geology at the University of British Columbia, is a young and able experimental petrologist already widely renowned for his clear, objective, and careful studies of fundamental problems involving formation of minerals and mineral assemblages under conditions of high temperatures and pressures and in the presence of more than one gas phase. He has demonstrated an ability not only in identifying significant petrological problems, but also in producing imaginative theoretical solutions, and in devising or adapting sophisticated equipment to obtain a confirmation of his conclusions.
Dr. Allan Griffin
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Theory of trapped ultracold quantum gases
Deceased Date: 2011-05-19
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Allan Griffin is a theoretical condensed matter physicist who has made significant contributions to our modern understanding of the dynamics of superfluid systems. He is internationally known for his seminal publications on the pivotal role of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) on the excitation spectrum in superconductors, superfluid Helium 4, and trapped ultracold Bose atomic gases. His recent fundamental studies of the combined role of both the condensate and non-condensate atoms culminated in his tour-de-force derivation of the Landau two-fluid hydrodynamic equations in trapped Bose gases. The author of two influential books on the topic of BEC in quantum liquids and gases, he is a leader in the emerging field of ultracold atomic gases.
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Allan Griffin has made significant contributions to the theoretical understanding of the dynamics of superfluid systems. His research on the pivotal role of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) on the excitation spectrum in superconductors, superfluid Helium 4, and trapped ultracold Bose atomic gases have made him a leader in the emerging field of ultracold atomic gases.