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Mr. Pierre Hansen
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Pierre Hansen, École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, est un chercheur de renommée internationale dans le domaine des modèles et méthodes de gestion scientifique, c'est-à-dire de prise de décision optimale dans des systèmes complexes. II a développé des algorithmes originaux (souvent les plus performants de l'heure) pour des problèmes de décisions quantitatives et qualitatives. Ces nouvelles méthodes exactes et les heuristiques ou méthodes approchées ainsi é1aborées ont été appliquées notamment en économie, en théorie des jeux, en marketing, en recherche documentaire et en intelligence artificielle. Ses travaux récents en classification, en localisation, en satisfiabilité probabiliste et en optimisation globale, constituent des percées significatives.
Dr. F. Kenneth Hare
Affiliation: Trent University
Keywords: Climate
Nuclear
Deceased Date: 2002-09-03
Frederick Kenneth Hare, President, University of British Columbia, has returned to Canada after an absence of four years. From 1945 to 1964, while at McGill University, he was, successively, Professor of Geography, Chairman of the Department of Geography and Meteorology, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, and later Master of Birkbeck College, University of London. His far ranging scientific pursuits have taken him from the geomorphology of the Middle Thames, through climatologic and ecologic problems of the Labrador Frontier, to arctic and stratospheric meteorology. He enjoys an international reputation and is one of those rare individuals who has successfully combined research with administration. Dr, Hare is a true interdisciplinary scholar.
Dr. Henry Harris
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Idealism, Italian philosophy, German philosophy, early Greek philosophy
Deceased Date: 2007-03-13
HENRY S. HARRIS, Department of Philosophy, Glendon College, York University, is the foremost Canadian specialist on the philosophy of Hegel as well as an expert on the writings of Giovanni Gentile and Benedotto Croce. The author, editor, and translator of numerous books and articles, he is a fine scholar who infuses his writings and teaching with full richness of the humanist tradition.
Dr. R. Cole Harris
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Contact Processes, colonialism, environmental change, regionalism
Deceased Date: 2022-09-26
Professor Richard Cole Harris is an eminent figure in the study of historical geography in Canada. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the seigneurial system in Quebec, and on a broader scale, he has contributed to a better knowledge of the evolution of Canadian society in relation to the land it occupies. His research has taken him to Quebec, Ontario, and now back to a study of the historical geography of his native province, British Columbia. He edited the first volume of the "Historical Atlas of Canada" (1987). His most recent book, "The Resettlement of British Columbia" (UBC Press, 1997) is a collection of his essays on aboriginalism, land, and social change in early modern British Columbia.
Dr. Walter Harris
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Deceased Date: 2011-10-20
Professor W.E. Harris has devoted his entire professional career to the research, development and teaching methodology of analytical chemistry. Among his numerous accomplishments, highly significant are his contributions, fundamental both in theory and practice, to programmed temperature gas chromatography, a major technique in widespread use today. The book which he co-authored with Dr. H.W. Habgood is and will remain to be a definitive text in this field. Another notable achievement includes his moderization of university instruction in analytical chemistry. He wrote a widely acclaimed text book in advanced analytical chemistry and he is internationally recognized as a leader in this area as well. His accomplishments are indeed remarkable and have been widely honored.
Paul Harrison
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Nitrogen uptake, marine phytoplankton ecology, primary productivity, nutrient physiology, light/nutrient interactions
Deceased Date: 2016-12-17
Dr.Harrison is one of very few world authorities on the uptake of nutrients by marine algae. He has been responsible for over 190 primary publications on this subject and is the joint author on a number of textbooks and reviews covering both marine phytoplankton and macrophytes. He has co-operated extensively with other scientists in international projects (e.g. JGOFS and GLOBEC) and has been widely consulted on water management in the Canadian Pacific Ocean as well as on the coasts of China and Pakistan. His discoveries include phosphorus limitation on the coast of China, surge nutrient uptake kinetics and the definition of an artificial seawater medium.