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Dr. Crawford Holling
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Florida
Deceased Date: 2020-08-18
Dr. Holling is an ecologist of international reputation, whose studies of predation have been of major significance to the concepts of modern systems ecology. His analysis of ecological processes as composed of mechanisms which can be separately modelled on the basis of experiment, is already recognized as a major contribution. The subsequent possibilities for synthesis of the component mechanisms into models of ecological processes are being widely explored. They promise to produce concepts of wide generality and usefulness in man's manipulation of his biological environment. Dr. Holling is widely consulted as one of the most distinguished ecologists in the world today.
Dr. Charles Hollenberg
RSC Fellow,
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Deceased Date: 2003-04-07
Dr. Hollenberg has achieved international recognition for work in two areas of lipid metabolism. Firstly, he has elucidated the mechanisms of uptake of fat into adipose tissue for storage and its transfer therefrom in times of muscle energy need. In particular, he has clarified the role of insulin in fat mobilization. His work is the foundation of much present knowledge of fat storage and utilization. Secondly, from his studies of DNA synthesis in fat cells, he has demonstrated that these cells can replicate. These studies greatly clarify the genesis of obesity and have stimulated work on the replication and differentiation of fat cells.
William Hood
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Maine
Keywords: Particle physics, cosmology, microbiology
Dr. Tomas Hudlicky
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Brock University
Keywords: organic synthesis, biocatalysis, natural products, chemistry
Induction Year: 2013
Deceased Date: 2022-05-10
Tomas Hudlicky, an early proponent of “green” chemistry, pioneered the use of biological methods in manufacturing medicinally important compounds. He developed efficient asymmetric syntheses of many pharmaceutically relevant targets (pancratistatin, morphine, Tamiflu, among others). He developed chemoenzymatic processes for recycling aromatic waste into useful materials, designed new processes for commercial analgesics, generated a family of new compounds with antiviral and anti-cancer properties, and won the prestigious Alfred Bader Award (2010).
Tomas Hudlicky est l’un des premiers adeptes de la chimie « verte ». Il est à l’origine de l’utilisation de méthodes biologiques dans la fabrication industrielle de composés médicaux. Il a conçu des synthèses asymétriques efficaces de nombreux produits pharmaceutiques, dont la pancratistatine, la morphine et le Tamiflu. Il a aussi mis au point des procédés chimio-enzymatiques afin de recycler des résidus aromatiques en matériaux utiles, conçus de nouveaux procédés de fabrication d’analgésiques commerciaux et créé une gamme de nouveaux composés aux propriétés antivirales et anti-cancer. Tomas Hudlicky a remporté le prestigieux prix Alfred Bader, en 2010.
Dr. Stanley Hughes
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Agriculture and Agrifood Canada
Keywords: Mycology, taxonomy, sooty moulds
Deceased Date: 2019-11-11
Dr. Stanley J. Hughes has won a world wide reputation for his great contribution to our knowledge of the fungi. He is widely known for his description of new organisms but he is best recognized for his far-reaching taxonomic study of the hypomycetes. This work has opened whole new pathways in the classification and identification of organisms. His work on pathogenic organisms has also brought him recognition by the award of the Jakob Erikkson Gold Medal at the llth International Botanical Congress in 1969, and by his election to the presidency of the Microbiological Society of America. Dr. Hughes has brought leadership, clarity and order to a difficult and important field of scientific and economic study.
Dr. J. N. Patterson Hume
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Deceased Date: 2013-05-09
Professor Hume has achieved international recognition, both for his work in Physics education and his research in computing. In Physics education he is the author of a university text with Dr. D.G. Ivey, with whom he collaborated in numerous television science programs for the CBC and the national education network in the U.S. One program, "Frames of Reference", has won many awards and is the best known Physics educational film. In computing he devised one of the first computer operating systems, one of the first compilers, and developed techniques for program debugging and long distance use of computers. Professor Hume's recent book on "Structured Programming" (published with R.C. Holt) has been translated into many computer languages and is very widely used. His current research interests are the analysis of computer systems and the way in which they best serve users. Most of his research has resulted in publications.
Prof. Gershon Hundert
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Jewish History, Polish , Lithuanian, Ukrainian history
Induction Year: 2011
Deceased Date: 2023-10-27