Dimitri Weiss, qui a été un des premiers docteurs en économie et administration des entreprises (1969) et le premier docteur d'État ès sciences de gestion en France (1975), est professeur à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et directeur du département Gestion des ressources humaines et des relations d'emploi à l'Institut d'Administration des Entreprises, où il travaille depuis 1962. Il est l'auteur de quelque 160 publications dans les domaines -dans lesquels il a joué un rôle de pionnier- des relations industrielles, de la gestion des ressources humaines, du management, de la communication et du consommérisme, parus en sept langues et douze pays, dont le Canada. Il a fait connaître les auteurs et les travaux canadiens, particulièrement le « Dictionnaire canadien » de Gérard Dion, sur les innombrables tribunes internationales où il a dispensé son savoir. L'intérêt du professeur Weiss pour le Canada, le nombre et la qualité de ses travaux et de ses publications, ainsi que son extraordinaire rayonnement à travers le monde ne sauraient être mieux reconnus qu'en l'accueillant comme membre étranger dans l'Académie des lettres et des sciences humaines de la Société royale du Canada.

Long Citation Barry Wellman ranks among Canada's most prominent sociologists and among the world's foundational leaders in social network analysis. His substantive, theoretical and methodological innovations revolutionized the study of community, work, the Internet and family life. A pioneer in the field, he formulated an internationally respected paradigm for understanding human interaction as social networks. His research has produced an extensive and influential body of literature and provides a framework for future studies on community technology and social change. He has also played key roles in several professional associations, advancing the field of social network analysis and sociology as a whole. Short Citation Barry Wellman ranks among Canada's most prominent sociologists and among the world's foundational leaders in social network analysis. His substantive, theoretical and methodological innovations revolutionized the study of community, work, the Internet and family life. A pioneer in the field, his research has produced an extensive and influential body of literature and provides a framework for future studies on community, technology and social change.

For the past 13 years Edward Whalley has headed a laboratory devoted to Physical Chemistry at high pressures. This laboratory is now well known throughout the world. Whalley's work has dealt with the structures of products formed at high pressures such as poly and methyl vinyl acetate, poly aldehydes, poly carbon disulphide and high pressure ices; rates of chemical reactions as a function of pressure and the use of the data obtained to explain organic reaction mechanisms; compressibilities of liquids, an extensive study of the p.v.t. properties of water and the design of high pressure equipment. His scientific work has invariably been first rate.