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Mr. Alexis Klimov
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Deceased Date: 2006-02-05
Dans son combat contre les idéologies simplistes dont se nourrissent les totalitarismes, Alexis Klimov, professeur à l'Université de Trois-Rivières, n'a cessé d'insister sur le caractère authentiquement libérateur de toute culture véritable. Sans doute, est-ce la raison du profond intérêt soulevé par ses livres; ses ouvrages sur Berdiaeff et sur Dostoïevski, publiés dans la célèbre collection « Philosophes de tous les temps » chez Seghers à Paris, sont complètement épuisés; le journal « Le Monde » a consacré une page entière pour souligner la parution de son « Jacob Boehme » chez Fayard en 1973, etc.
Directeur de la collection « Textes et Etudes slaves », A. Klimov, qui a également publié plusieurs ouvrages au Québec, est membre d'importantes associations nationales et internationales (par exemple l'International P.E.N.). Profondément engagé dans l'action culturelle, il est le fondateur de l'une des plus actives sociétés de philosophie du monde francophone. Par ailleurs, conférencier recherché, il s'efforce notamment d'approfondir les conséquences de l'étroite interdépendance existant entre le monde des idées et celui de l'art.
Dr. Roger Knowles
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Microbiology, nitrogen transformations, methanotrophs
Deceased Date: 2009-11-27
Roger Knowles has an international reputation for his outstanding studies of physiological and ecological aspects of nitrogen transformations in terrestrial and aquatic systems. He has critically examined the methods used to study these transformations and his contribution of pure culture, laboratory model system and 'in situ' investigations has led to significant advances. For example, his examination of the acetylene reduction method for measuring nitrogen fixation led to the discovery of a new sensitive and cheap method for the assay of denitrification. Roger Knowles was the recipient of the CSM Award for 1982 from the Canadian Society of Mlcrobiologists for outstanding contributions to research in microbiology.
Dr. E.F. Koerner
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Deceased Date: 2022-01-06
E. F. Konrad Koerner, Canada's most distinguished historian of linguistics, has done much to professionalize this field, both in Canada and internationally. His personal scholarship includes four books on the linguistic thought of Ferdinand de Saussure, the founder of modern linguistics as well as of structuralism in the humanities and social sciences. Dr. Koerner's bibliographic and editorial work and six books devoted to 19th and 20th century historiography of the language sciences has provided crucial resources for burgeoning historicist scholarship. Canada's high profile in linguistic historiography depends in great part on Dr. Koerner's books, articles, conference presentations, organizational skills and international network. He is also active in writing and editing in current linguistic theory and in diachronic linguistics.
Dr. Gabriel Kolko
Affiliation: York University
Deceased Date: 2014-05-19
Gabriel Kolko has revised the way we think about power in America. One of the most prolific and influential historians of the United States, Professor Kolko has always taken on big questions, mastered prodigious quantitites of documentation, and delivered challenging, thought provoking books on important issues such as the distribution of wealth and power, economic regulation, the nature of progressivism, the origins of the Cold War, and patterns of political economy. Soon he will publish a massive history of the Vietnam War which will undoubtedly signal the beginnings of a major reinterpretation of that event. Seldom has a scholar had such a profound influence upon both scholarship and public opinion. Gabriel Kolko expemplifies the noblest ambitions of this Academy: he subverts unfounded conventional wisdom, strips away error and myth, subjects the powerful to relentless critical scrutiny, and challenges us all to rethink fundamental beliefs.
Dr. A. Kresge
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Deceased Date: 2010-06-06
Understanding the proton transfer process, a ubiquitous chemical reaction of great importance, has been the goal of Dr. Kresge's professional career. This pursuit has taken him from an initial interest in slow proton transfer involving carbon, which produced comprehensive investigations of aromatic hydrogen exchange and vinyl ether hydrolysis, to the examination of very fast proton transfer between 'normal' acids and bases such as H+ and HO-. Along the way he has performed definitive modern studies of such classic reactions as ortho ester hydrolysis, nitroamide decomposition, and beto-enol tautomerism and he has emerged as a foremost authority on acid-base catalysis and a leading physical organic chemist.
Dr. Krešimir Krnjević
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Brain mechanisms of learning and addiction
Deceased Date: 2021-04-16
Kresimir Krnjevic has a research career extending from Edinburgh to Canberra to Montreal, beginning with the physiology of nerve trunks, and extending to structures and processes of increasing complexity within the nervous system. In Canberra, Krnjevic identified nerve-fibre branching points as sites of conduction failure in fatigue. Later, with the aid of microelectrophoretic techniques for injecting ions close to or inside single brain neurons he showed that certain suspected neurotransmitters act by altering neuronal membrane permeability. His latest studies on the gating mechanisms in the cuneate nucleus and on the depressant effect of intraneuronal calcium injection, promise to be equally important.
Dr. Robert Kroetsch
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Deceased Date: 2011-06-21
Prolific novelist, poet and critical essayist, the contributions of Robert Kroetsch, Distinguished Professor in the University of Manitoba, to literature and ideas have been recognized by several awards and by many invitations to lecture and participate in symposia. Novels and poems are original in form and content and meditate on many aspects of life - prairie regionalism, fiction versus reality, the temper of North America, the poet and his mortality. His critical studies have brought Canadian literature and ideas to new audiences in North America and Europe. In all three genres, as well as in the 'interview' which he has made peculiarly his own, Kroetsch's writing and speaking is original in form and matter, penetrating and provoking.
Dr. Thomas Krogh
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: u-Pb dating, cristal evolution, earth history, impact processes
Deceased Date: 2008-04-29
Thomas Edvard Krogh, Geochronology Laboratory, Royal Ontario Museum, is an internationally respected scientist who has revolutionized the technique of radiometric uranium-lead dating by the development of new laboratory procedures and analytical methodologies that have yielded a hitherto unheard of precision, particularly as applied to the dating of Precambrian rocks. His techniques have been copied around the world, and are openly acknowledged to be unsurpassed. The application of these techniques to the unraveling of the early history of the earth's crust by Krogh and his coworkers and collaborators has contributed to the development of an astonishingly detailed understanding of the evolution of the earth's Precambrian shield areas.
Dr. Howard Krouse
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Deceased Date: 2010-03-02
Howard Roy Krouse, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Calgary, has achieved national and international distinction through his contributions to the theory of isotopic behaviour, instrumental techniques and the application of isotopic studies to a wide range of natural phenomena. Although he is multi-disciplinary and has actively promoted the use of stable isotope data for the understanding and solution of many problems, the emphasis and impact has been in the earth sciences. These contributions have been made by studying isotopes of sulphur, oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, selenium, tellurium, germanium, lithium and nitrogen. The result is a major improvement in our understanding of ore deposits, petroleum occurrences and dispersal patterns in the environment.
Dr. Karol Krótki
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Demography
Sampling
Economic development
Defective data analysis
Deceased Date: 2007-07-05
Few social scientists in Canada could claim such a diversity of experiences. Dr. Krotki has spent about thirty very productive years of his life in almost all continents, particularly in developping countries. Part of his reputation is related to his important contribution to methodological improvements in the measurement of demographic phenomena in these countries. Besides being a world leading researcher in that field, he has made remarkable contributions to the understanding of social implications of population phenomena, particularly in Canada. As a scholar and professor, Dr. Krotki is one of the leading demographers of this country.
Dr. J. Kuehner
Affiliation: McMaster University
Deceased Date: 2006-09-26
John Kuehner went to McMaster in 1966 after ten very productive years at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory where he established for himself an international reputation in the field of nuclear spectroscopy. He was the first to carry-out particle-particle angular correlations, with one particle detected at O degrees to the beam, which led to his important discoveries of some of the high-spin rotational band members in the 2ONe. He was also a pioneer in the application of magnetic spectrographs to such difficult measurements. Since 1966 he has played a vital role in the development of the McMaster Nuclear Structure Laboratory. Recently he has been pioneering at McMaster the use of polarized ion beams in nuclear spectroscopy.
Dr. Arnis Kuksis
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Lipids, metabolism, atherosclerosis, chromatography, mass spectrometry
Deceased Date: 2024-09-02
Arnis Kuksis has developed methods of lipid analysis that have led to world wide recognition as a leader in this field and have enabled him to make important discoveries in human and animal metabolism with special reference to the understanding and treatment of disorders of lipid metabolism including the disease, atherosclerosis. He has been an invited lecturer at international meetings on 30 occasions. He has published over 220 articles, and 48 major reviews. He has also edited three books and a two-volume treatise on fat absorption for CRC Press. He is one of Canada's most productive and distinguished biochemists and he could be considered the top person in his field in the world.
Dr. Walter Kupsch
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Keywords: Stratigraphy
Petroleum exploration
Arctic environment
Geomorphology
Glaciation
Deceased Date: 2003-07-05
Born in the Netherlands 1919. B.Sc. (Amsterdam) 1943, went to the United States in 1946. M.Sc. (Michigan) 1948, Ph.D. (Michigan) 1950. Since 1950 on the staff of the Geology Department of the University of Saskatchewan, now holds the rank of Associate Professor.
During the summers of 1950-1956 carried out field investigations for the Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources and in those of 1957-1958 was geologist with the Gulf Oil Company spending the latter summer in Peru. The summers of 1961 and 1962 he was engaged on geological work in the Arctic Islands.
He has broad geological interests and has made Pleistocene geology, geomorphology and stratigraphy his special fields. He is a prolific writer and has published extensively.