Dr. Kao has led the world in solving central problems in artificial hybridization of plants using tissue culture. His highly innovative contributions have helped Canada to achieve a preeminent international reputation in this field. He pioneered the production of cell cultures from protoplasts and was first to fuse protoplasts using polyethylene glycol. His fusion method is now standard for plant, animal and bacterial cells. Dr. Kao developed the first inter-family somatic hybrid cultures (soybean and tobacco) and demonstrated activity of both parental genomes. Dr. Kao also played a central role in develoloing haploid barley plants through both embryo and anther culture.

Notice longue David Karel, professeur à l'Université Laval, est un chercheur de haut calibre en histoire de l'art. Il est l'auteur d'un ouvrage monumental, le Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord, qui sert de référence au sujet de la carrière de plus de cinq mille artistes nés avant 1901 et qui ont travaillé au Canada, aux États-unis et au Mexique. Il a aussi publié des monographies savantes et de nombreux articles et catalogues, en plus d'être commissaire délégué pour d'importantes expositions au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. A l’Université Laval, il a dirigé plus de trente thèses et mémoires, et il participe à des groupes de recherche sur l'histoire culturelle du Québec. L'excellence de ses travaux, leur importance et leur intérêt sont reconnus de tous. Notice courte David Karel est un chercheur de haut calibre en histoire de l'art. Il est l'auteur d’un ouvrage monumental, le Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord. Il a aussi publié des monographies savantes et de nombreux articles, en plus d'être commissaire délégué pour d'importantes expositions au Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. L'excellence de ses travaux, leur importance et leur intérêt sont reconnus de tous.

George Karpati, Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Montreal Neurological Institute, is one of Canada's most outstanding clinician-scientists. His studies of muscle physiology and the pathology of neuromuscular disease have brought him international recognition. His greatest achievements are in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a lethal genetic disorder due to a deficiency of the cytoskeletal muscle protein, dystrophin. He was the first to show the localization of dystrophin to the muscle fiber surface and to demonstrate a lack of dystrophin in the fibers of Duchenne patients. Karpati demonstrated pre-clinical success with adenovirus-mediated dystrophin gene replacement in mice. His research is not confined to Duchenne MD, but covers a broad range of basic and clinical studies on myopathies and other neuromuscular disorders, and utilizes a broad spectrum of technologies from clinical diagnosis, histology, cytochemistry, molecular biology and genetics.

Dr. Morris Kates received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1948. His doctoral thesis described the first successful synthesis of a natural phospholipid, dipalmitoyl lecithin. Since 1951 when he joined the Division of Biosciences, National Research Council, and later in 1968 when he transferred to the Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa, his investigations dealt with the chemistry, biosynthesis and metabolism of lipids in plants and microorganisms. He discovered in membranes of extremely halophilic bacteria a new class of lipids derived from a phytanyl diether of glycerol. Dr. Kates has published two hundred and ten research papers and twenty-one review articles on lipolytic enzymes, and plant and bacterial lipids, and has established himself as one of the leading investigators in this field.

Professor Paul Kebarle has had an increasingly productive professional career in mass spectometry. During years of dedication he has developed fundamental ideas and data that are being used not only in physical chemistry, but also in several other disciplines. His work on gas phase solvation equilibria is recognized as a classic study. A study of ion-molecule reactions in the gas phase that was first systematically developed in his laboratory has become the outstanding source of thermo-chemical information for ion-molecule aggregates. He has carried out fundamental work on intrinsic basicities and acidities. The impact of his work is reflected in the numerous invitations he receives, particularly from physical organic chemists, to present lectures.

William Keith has established himself as the major authority on 'the rural tradition' in both prose and poetry. But his interests are wide, and his publications have been in a variety of fields. He has written on Blake, Lawrence, Hardy, and Yeats; and he has taken a vigorous interest in Canadian Literature. His recent appointment as Editor of "The University of Toronto Quarterly" is evidence of the respect that his colleagues feel for his scholarly scope and critical acuteness.