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Dr. JOHN BARRIE HUTCHINGS
Affiliation: National Research Council
Keywords: Active galaxies, x-ray sources, hot stars, space instrumentation, binary stars
Deceased Date: 2024-09-18
Dr. Hutchings has used a wide variety of observational methods to study the loss of mass from evolving hot, luminous stars, including novae. He has also studied intensively close binary stars that contain a compact star interacting with its cooler companion. This work has led him to identify two probable black holes in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In recent years, he has also studied the structure and nature of quasars, some of which are believed to be the most distant objects known in the Universe.
Jeffrey Hutchings
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Keywords: Biology, oceans, fish, ecology, evolution, fisheries
Induction Year: 2015
Deceased Date: 2022-01-30
Updated July 27, 2015
HUTCHINGS, Jeffrey, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University
Jeffrey Hutchings pioneered the integration of basic fish ecology and evolution with applied population dynamics and conservation biology. He is at the forefront of an uncommon breadth of research: life-history evolution; reproductive strategies; phenotypic plasticity; species recovery; fisheries sustainability. Committed to transparent, objective communication of science to decision-makers, he has chaired or served national and international expert panels and advisory committees, imparting science to parliamentarians, officers of parliament, and society.
Updated July 27, 2015
HUTCHINGS, Jeffrey, Département de biologie, Université Dalhousie
Jeffrey Hutchings pionnier de l'intégration de l'écologie de base de poisson et de l'évolution de la dynamique des populations appliquées et biologie de la conservation. Il est à la pointe d'une ampleur rare de la recherche: l'évolution de l'histoire de vie; stratégies de reproduction; plasticité phénotypique; le rétablissement des espèces; la durabilité de la pêche. Engagé dans une communication transparente et objective de la science aux décideurs, il a présidé ou servi panneaux experts nationaux et internationaux et de comités consultatifs, de la science transmettre aux parlementaires, hauts fonctionnaires du Parlement et de la société.
Dr. Roy Hyndman
Affiliation: University of Victoria
Keywords: Geoscience, geophysics, marine, earthquakes, gas hydrate
Deceased Date: 2023-05-16
Dr. Hyndman is perhaps the most versatile and productive of the younger geophysicists in Canada, widely known internationally. He has made gravity geothermal, magnetotelluric, and geomagnetic laboratory measurements of the physical properties of rock samples taken from the oceanic crust. He has applied this broad range of techniques to the solution of important problems related to the origin and evolution of oceanic crust and of the continental margins off eastern and western Canada. His papers are rich sources of accurate observations, innovative instrumentation, and important ideas; first amongst which is the first recognition of the now widely accepted possibility of fluid circulation deep in the earth's crust.
Dr. H.B. Noel Hynes
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Keywords: Running water, invertebrates
Deceased Date: 2009-03-02
Professor Hynes is one of the best known freshwater ecologists and systematists in America and in the world. His two monographs (Biology of polluted waters; Ecology of running waters) are standard texts in river management. Urbane and polylingual, with wide field experience in both temperate and tropical surroundings, his presence in Canada has been a tremendous asset to our pedagogy and our research. Professor Hynes' high standing among freshwater biologists was recently reflected in an invitation to deliver the Edgardo Baldi Lecture at the next International Congress of Limnology, and the award in 1998 of the Navmann/Trienemann Medal.
Mr. Gérard Hébert
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Deceased Date: 2001-08-16
Le professeur Gérard Hébert détient une licence en philosophie et en théologie ainsi qu'un doctorat en économique avec spécialisation en relations industrielles. Après avoir enseigné à l'Université McGill, il passe, en 1965, à l'Université de Montréal où il est maintenant professeur titulaire à l'Ecole de relations industrielles.
Il a publié une multitude d'articles particulièrement dans les revues « Relations » et « Relations industrielles », et est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont « Décrets et comités paritaires » (1964), « Les
relations du travail dans l'industrie de la construction » (1969) et « Les relations du travail dans I'industrie de la construction au Québec » (2 vol. 1977-1978).
Son autorité et sa compétence bien reconnues par tous l'ont amené à être invité à participer comme membre de plusieurs commissions gouvernementales pour la réforme de la législation et à présider, de 1977 à 1978, celle qui porte son nom etqui portait sur les relations du travail dans la construction au Québec.
Mr. Jacques Hétu
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Montréal
Keywords: Composition musicale, création, émotion, précision, solitude, indépendance
Deceased Date: 2010-02-09
Jacques Hétu est l'un des compositeurs canadiens les plus joués, tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger. Entre 1956 et 1961, il étudiera le piano, le hautbois et la composition au Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. En 1961, après avoir obtenu les Prix du Conservatoire en harmonie, contrepoint et composition, il reçoit le Prix de composition du Festival de musique du Québec, le Prix d'Europe de composition et une bourse du Conseil des Arts du Canada.
De 1961 à 1963, il étudiera la composition à l'École normale de musique de Paris avec Henri Dutilleux et suivit les cours d'analyse d'Olivier Messiaen au Conservatoire de Paris. Après avoir enseigné à l'Université Laval de Québec pendant 14 ans, Jacques Hétu, depuis 1979, est professeur à l'Université du Québec à Montréal où il enseigne l'analyse musicale.
Les oeuvres de Hétu incluent quatre symphonies, des concertos : piano (1969), basson (1979), clarinette (1983), trompette (1987), ondes Martenot (1990), flûte (1991), guitare (1994) et trombone (1995); des oeuvres pour voix et orchestre dont « Les Abîmes de Rêve » op.36 (1982), la « Missa pro trecentesimo anno », op. 53 (1992) sur un livret de Yves Beauchemin.
Mr. Ernie Ingles
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: library, libraries, academic libraries, librarianship
Deceased Date: 2020-09-17
Ernest B. Ingles, Associate Vice-President (Learning Systems) and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta has made outstanding contributions to scholarship as the author of four major bibliographies indispensable to research in Canadian Studies and, as founding director of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, began the transformation of Canada's printed heritage to microfiche and more recently to digital format, thus helping overcome barriers of scarcity and access to the full development of Canadian Studies. As a librarian, he was instrumental in founding other national research resources such as the Canadian Author's Manuscript Collection and the Canadian Architectural Archives, and has achieved international prominence and won numerous awards within the profession for contributions, innovation, and the promotion of library cooperation.
Dr. Keith Ingold
Affiliation: National Research Council
Deceased Date: 2023-09-08
Since 1950 Dr. K. U. Ingold has published 43 papers on gas and liquid phase kinetics, mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and electron spin resonance spectroscopy. His work on the kinetics and mechanism of the inhibition of autoxidation of organic substances by phenols has been particularly outstanding and has received widespread recognition. This work has elucidated the mechanism and has enabled a correlation to be made between the structure of the inhibitor and its inhibiting power. In further work he has shown by infrared spectroscopy that the phenolic hydroxyl group is coplanar with the aromatic ring even in sterically highly hindered phenols.
Christopher Innes
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Theater, performance, society
Deceased Date: 2017-06-19
Professor Innes has been rightly called a polymath of drama and theatre. In six monographs to date and numerous articles, he has developed new critical methods linking politics and theatre; established terms for analysing modern experimental drama; and demonstrated a talent for identifying significant connections - as in his latest, most major work: "Modern British Drama, 1890-1990". Through wide editorial activities he exercises a leading role in his field, as with the new standards for documenting stage-productions set by his Cambridge Directors' monograph series. His international distinction is recognized by major honours: the Benian's Fellowship (St. John's, Cambridge); Visiting Eminent Scholar (Australia).
Dr. Edward Irving
Affiliation: Natural Resources Canada
Keywords: Tectonics, pleomagnetism, magnetostratigraphy, paleoclimatology, history of science
Deceased Date: 2014-02-25
lrving's work in palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism has been outstanding. His early work, in Britain, contributed to the first polar wandering curve; subsequent work on Australian rocks provided the first indisputable evidence for continental drift. Since these original discoveries Irving has established the existence of the Kiaman Interval of no reversals, developed techniques of calculating palaeolatitudes, compared the results with palaeoclimatic evidence and the occurrence of oil deposits, directed an extensive program of palaeomagnetic research designed to establish the magnetic stratigraphy of the Proterozoic in Canada with the Earth Physics Branch, DEMR, and latterly established a palaeomagnetic laboratory at the Pacific Geoscience Centre (now Dept. of National Resources) where he directed, prior to retirement; programmes of work on the of the Cordillera, and magnetostratigraphy on of Quaterrary deposits in Western Canada. Throughout his career, he contributed to the development of the history of movements of the continents, continental drift, and to the modern theory of plate tectonics.
Dr. Nathan Isgur
Affiliation: Jefferson Laboratory
Deceased Date: 2001-07-24
Nathan ISGUR has made important contributions to the understanding of hadrons - the family of particles from which the atomic nucleus and similar structures are built. His work on baryons has become the standard reference for the spectroscopy and decays of these particles. This work has been generalized to explain the forces between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus. In the same general direction ISGUR and his coworkers have generalized the quark model to include the motion of strings, and have found the limitation of perturbative methods in describing quarks and gluons.
Dr. Werner Israel
Affiliation: University of Victoria
Keywords: Black holes, general relativity
Deceased Date: 2022-05-18
Professor Werner Israel has made several very fundamental contributions to general relativity theory and relativistic astrophysics. In particular, his formalism to study mass shells in general relativity has been found to be widely useful in discussing problems in relativistic hydrodynamics. In 1968, he proved a theorem (the event horizon theorem) on the nature of space-time singularities which has given an entirely new perspective to the problem of gravitational collapse and has sparked much new research both here and abroad.
Professor Israel's researches have won him international acclaim and recognition. In 1966, his paper "Is Gravitational Collapse Irreversible" was awarded one of the prizes sponsored by the Gravity Research Foundation of the U.S.A. He is much in demand as lecturer at international conferences and at various universities on this continent and Europe.