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Dr. John Sipe
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Optical properties, semiconductors, quantum optics, nanostructures, quantum processes
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John Sipe has made original contributions to our theoretical understanding of the optical properties of semiconductors and metals. He is widely known for his pioneering work to understand the linear and nonlinear optical properties starting from the quantum theory of electrons in solids. Dr. Sipe has also explained several novel responses of solids to high light intensities, such as the influence of laser coherence on the patterns formed on surfaces in laser-induced melting, the transmission properties of structured optical fibres at high laser intensity, and how semiconductors change the frequency of light through optical harmonic generation. His work has had significant impact on the telecommunications industry. Prof. Sipe is one of Canada's most cited physicists, and is also recognized as a gifted classroom lecturer.
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John Sipe has made original contributions to our theoretical understanding of the optical properties of semiconductors and metals. He is widely known for his pioneering work to understand quantitatively the linear and nonlinear optical properties starting from the quantum theory of electronic excitations in solids. His work has had significant impact on the telecommunications industry and he is one of Canada's most highly cited physicists.
Mr. Antoine Sirois
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Université de Sherbrooke
Keywords: Influences, comparaisons, culture, littérature canadienne, littérature québécoise
Antoine Sirois était professeur titulaire au département des lettres et communications de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines de l'Université de Sherbrooke et il est maintenant professeur émérite de l'université. Son enseignement portait sur les littératures canadienne et québécoise et ses recherches se poursuivent dans le même domaine.
Il a mis l'accent sur la littérature canadienne comparée et il a concouru à son développement dans l'ensemble du pays. À cette fin, il travaille encore en étroite collaboration avec ses collègues et avec d'autres universitaires. Il s'adonne en particulier à la mythocritique pour mettre en rapport les grands mythes et les oeuvres romanesques québécoises. Il a à son crédit de nombreuses et importantes publications, innovatrices en comparatisme et en mythocritique. Son autorité dans le domaine universitaire lui a valu une incontestable notoriété.
Il a reçu le Prix Gabrielle Roy 1987 de l'Association des littératures canadienne et québécoise pour la meilleure critique en littérature québécoise et le Certificat de mérite 1989-1990 de l'Association des études canadiennes pour sa contribution aux études littéraires, en particulier en littérature canadienne comparée.
K.W. Michael Siu
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Windsor
Keywords: Mass Spectrometry, chemistry
Induction Year: 2009
Professor K.W. Michael Siu is one of Canada's foremost bioanalytical and biophysical chemists and an exceptional mass spectrometrist with an outstanding record of innovation and accomplishment. He has made most significant contributions to understanding the structures, energetics, and ionization and gas-phase chemistries of protonated and metalated peptides.
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SIU, K.W. Michael –Department of Chemistry, York University
Professor K.W. Michael Siu is one of Canada's foremost bioanalytical and biophysical chemists and an exceptional mass spectrometrist with an outstanding record of innovation and accomplishment. He has made most significant contributions to understanding the structures, energetics, and ionization and gas-phase chemistries of protonated and metalated peptides as well as peptide radical ions, developing new mass spectrometry (MS) instrumentation in collaboration with Canadian industry, and developing innovative MS technologies and methodologies for proteomics, especially in the discovery, identification, verification and quantification of protein biomarkers for better diagnostics and prognostics of cancers.
Jacob Sivak
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Keywords: Refractive state, ocular aberrations, accommodation, ocular development, toxicity
Jacob Sivak has published over 200 articles on the refractive components, optical aberrations and accommodative (focussing) mechanisms of the vertebrate eye. He has developed and patented a novel lens organ culture and scanning optical system designed to use abattoir-supplied tissue to measure toxicological ocular sensitivity as an alternative to the use of live animals.
Dr. Emil Skamene
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Immunology, inflammation, genomics, genetics, infection
Dr. Emil Skamene is recognized internationally as a leader in the field of genetic analysis of complex traits of the major diseases of adulthood. His work has been motivated by an abiding interest in the genetic regulation of susceptibility and resistance to diseases which include tuberculosis, malaria, atherosclerosis, and cancer. His interests may be broadly divided into two areas: the identification of host resistance genes and the isolation of their protein products, and the phenotypic expression of host resistance genes at the immunological level. The first major fruits of his efforts were in the discovery of the Pcg host resistance gene in the 1980's and the culmination in this work in the cloning of the murine Bcg gene in 1993. Much more of the same is yet to come.
Johanna Skibsrud
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Keywords: fiction, poetry. literary analysis. theory and practice of literature
Induction Year: 2024
Johanna Skibsrud is the author of numerous works of fiction,
poetry and non-fiction including the Scotiabank Giller Prize
winning novel The Sentimentalists and, most recently, the essay
collection Fool (Routledge 2024) and a poetry collection, Medium
(Book*hug 2024). Born in Nova Scotia, she completed her PhD in English
Literature at the Université de Montréal and is currently Professor of English
and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
Johanna Skibsrud est l’auteure de nombreux ouvrages de fiction,
de poésie et de non-fiction, dont le roman The Sentimentalists,
lauréat du prix Scotiabank Giller, et, plus récemment, le recueil
d’essais Fool (Routledge 2024) et un recueil de poèmes, Medium
(Book*hug 2024). Née en Nouvelle-Écosse, elle a obtenu un doctorat en
littérature anglaise à l’Université de Montréal et est actuellement professeure
d’anglais et de création littéraire à la University of Arizona.
Mark W. Skinner
RSC College Member
Affiliation: Trent University
Keywords: Health geography; social gerontology; rural aging; voluntarism
Induction Year: 2016
Mark Skinner is a health, rural and social geographer who is making vital contributions to scholarship in Canada. He is a thoughtful practitioner whose primary research interests are aging communities, health care and volunteerism, with particular attention to rural people and places. Featuring community-based research in Canada and internationally, his work contributes to the fields of rural aging, rural health, social gerontology, health and social care, and the voluntary sector.
Mark Skinner est un géographe à l’avant-garde des recherches sur le vieillissement rural au Canada. En tant que titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en vieillissement rural, en santé et en soins sociaux, il est une autorité internationale de pointe sur le rôle évolutif du bénévolat pour soutenir les personnes plus âgées et entretenir les collectivités vieillissantes. Reconnu comme un créateur de capacités novatrices en recherche communautaire, il est internationalement reconnu pour ses contributions à la géographie de la santé, à la gérontologie sociale et à la santé rurale.
Dr. Ruth Slack
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Neural regeneration
Induction Year: 2017
Ruth S. SLACK is a Professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She is an international leader in the field of stem cell biology, and mitochondrial function in the context of brain damage and neurodegenerative diseases. Her recent discoveries have opened new opportunities to target mitochondrial metabolism to enhance the brain’s regenerative capacity and improve neurological function.
Ruth S. SLACK est professeure au Département de médecine cellulaire et moléculaire de l'Université d'Ottawa. Elle est un chef de file international dans le domaine de la biologie des cellules souches et la fonction mitochondriale dans le contexte de lésions cérébrales. Ses découvertes récentes ont ouvert de nouvelles opportunités pour cibler le métabolisme mitochondrial afin d'améliorer la capacité de régénération du cerveau et d'améliorer la fonction neurologique.
Dr. Gordon Slade
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Critical phenomena, lace expansion, percolation, self-avoiding walk, super-brownian motion
Gordon Slade is the world's leading expert in the use of the lace expansion. With Takashi Hara, he has used this technique to solve a series of difficult and important problems in statistical mechanics. He has proved "mean field" behaviour of the self-avoiding random walk above the critical dimension of 4, and of percolation in sufficiently high dimensions. Working with his student Eric Derbez, Slade has also connected two quite distinct areas of probability by proving that, above the critical dimension of 8, lattice trees converge to the integrated super-Brownian excursion.
Prof. Angelique Slade Shantz
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Induction Year: 2025
Angelique Slade Shantz is an internationally recognized scholar whose research focuses on the role of business in addressing two of the most important questions society currently faces: 1) how to support economic growth such that all can live above a social foundation, and 2) how to do so without going beyond an ecological ceiling that exceeds planetary resources. Her research has been recognized with a Canada Research Chair in Social Entrepreneurship.
Angelique Slade Shantz est une universitaire de renommée internationale qui mène des recherches sur le rôle des entreprises dans la résolution de deux des enjeux les plus importants auxquels la société est actuellement confrontée : 1) comment soutenir la croissance économique de manière à ce que tous puissent vivre au-dessus d’un seuil social minimum, et 2) comment y parvenir sans dépasser le plafond écologique de la planète. Ses recherches ont été reconnues par l’octroi d’une Chaire de recherche du Canada en entrepreneuriat social.
Mr. Gary Slater
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: computational physics, electrophoresis, statistical mechanics, microfluids, nanofluidics, diffusion, biological physics, electrohydrodynamics
Induction Year: 2012
SLATER, Gary W. - Department of Physics, University of Ottawa
Professor Slater is known internationally for his fundamental and interdisciplinary contributions to separation science, including DNA electrophoresis—the key laboratory method used to sequence the Human Genome. He has proposed innovative ideas for new bioanalytical instruments that can exploit the subtle properties of biological molecules in very small systems. He has also pioneered the use of advanced computational simulation methods to study complex problems in biological physics and analytical chemistry.
SLATER, Gary W. - Département de physique, Université d’Ottawa
Gary Slater est reconnu dans le monde pour ses recherches fondamentales et interdisciplinaires sur les techniques de séparation, dont l’électrophorèse de l’ADN, la méthode utilisée en laboratoire dans le séquençage du génome humain. Il a soumis des idées originales pour le développement de nouveaux instruments de bioanalyse pouvant exploiter les propriétés ténues des molécules biologiques dans les systèmes restreints. Il a aussi été parmi les premiers à utiliser des simulations informatiques avancées pour étudier des problèmes complexes de physique biologique et de chimie analytique.
Prof. Brian Slattery
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Constitutional law, aboriginal rights, constitutional history, legal theory, human rights
Brian Slattery, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, is a legal scholar who rejected the conventional, Eurocentric doctrine that recognized the reception of English and French law into Canada, but made no room for Aboriginal rights. He has proposed a novel theory of Aboriginal rights and their relationship to federal and provincial laws, which has now been accepted by courts as well as by scholars. The work has transformed the way in which scholars think about the foundations of the legal system, and placed Aboriginal rights on a secure legal footing.
Prof. Hanadi Sleiman
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2016
SLEIMAN, Hanadi – Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Hanadi Sleiman, Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair is a world leader in DNA nanotechnology and supramolecular chemistry. Her group pioneered the use of synthetic molecules to assemble DNA into nanostructures. Sleiman reported the first synthesis of DNA cages and nanotubes which encapsulate guests and release them with biological stimuli. They used DNA to organize nanoparticles, transition metals and polymers into nanostructures for drug delivery, diagnostics and nanoelectronics.
Hanadi Sleiman, professeure et présidente de recherche du Canada de niveau 1 est une chef de file mondiale en nanotechnologie de l’ADN et en chimie supramoléculaire. Son groupe a inventé l’utilisation de molécules synthétiques pour assembler l’ADN en nanostructures. Mme Sleiman a présenté la première synthèse de cages et de nanotubes d’ADN qui contient des invités et les libère avec des stimuli biologiques. Ils ont utilisé l’ADN pour organiser les nanoparticules, les métaux de transition et les polymères en nanostructures pour la libération de médicament, les diagnostics et la nanoélectronique.
Prof. Edward "Ted" Slingerland
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Keywords: Chinese philosophy, ethics, mind
Induction Year: 2024
Edward Slingerland is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor
of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Asian Studies and is Director of the Database of Religious History (religiondatabase.org). Dr.
Slingerland is the author of several academic monographs, translations and edited volumes, two trade books, and approximately fifty book chapters, reviews, and articles in top academic journals in a wide range of fields.
Edward Slingerland est chercheur universitaire et professeur de philosophie à la University of British Colombia,
où il est également membre des départements de psychologie et d’études asiatiques et directeur de la base de données sur l’histoire des religions (religiondatabase.org). Prof.
Slingerland est l’auteur de plusieurs monographies, traductions et volumes édités, de deux livres commerciaux
et d’une cinquantaine de chapitres de livres, de critiques et d’articles parus dans des revues scientifiques de premier plan dans un large éventail de domaines.
Prof. Sharon Sliwinski
RSC College Member
Affiliation: Western University
Keywords: human rights, visual culture, critical theory, psychoanalysis,
Induction Year: 2017
Sharon Sliwinski is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work forges a bridge between the fields of visual culture, political theory, and psychoanalysis. Her scholarship has profoundly shaped the field of photography studies, particularly by illuminating the visual politics of human rights. Sliwinski’s recent work pioneers a novel method for investigating the social imaginary, revealing how dream-life can serve as a potent brand of political intervention and a means for resisting sovereign power.
Sharon Sliwinski est un chercheur interdisciplinaire dont les travaux jettent un pont entre les domaines de la culture visuelle, de la théorie politique et de la psychanalyse. Ses travaux de recherche ont profondément façonné le domaine des études photographiques, notamment en jetant un éclairage nouveau la politique visuelle des droits de l’homme. Les récents travaux de Sharon Sliwinski ouvrent la voie à une nouvelle méthode d’investigation de l’imaginaire social, en révélant comment une vie rêvée peut servir de signe puissant d’intervention politique et moyen de résistance au pouvoir souverain.
Dr. Arthur Slutsky
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation, physiology, critical care
Induction Year: 2015
Updated July 23, 2015
SLUTSKY, Arthur, Medicine, University of Toronto
Arthur Slutsky, VP Research at St. Michael’s Hospital, is an engineer, physician and researcher who has made important discoveries related to the benefits and complications of mechanical ventilation – a life-sustaining therapy in critically ill patients. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed articles and his innovative work has played a major role in improving the way that mechanical ventilation is delivered, resulting in decreased mortality in patients with respiratory failure.
Updated July 23, 2015
Arthur Slutsky, Vice-Président pour la Recherche à l'Hôpital St. Michael, est un ingénieur, médecin et chercheur responsable d'importantes découvertes relatives aux bénéfices et aux complications de la ventilation mécanique - une thérapeutique qui maintient en vie les patients en état critique. Il a publié plus de 450 articles scientifiques évalués par les pairs, et ses innovations ont joué un rôle majeur dans l'amélioration apportée à la pratique de la ventilation mécanique, aboutissant à une réduction de la mortalité des patients en insuffisance respiratoire aigüe
Dr. Vaclav Smil
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Keywords: Energy, environment, history of technical advances
Vaclav Smil is one of the gifted few for whom the term polymath is not an exaggeration. His primary interests have been energy, environment and human ecology. As a scientist he provides an empirical basis for his judgements, which embrace many disciplines. Five of his dozen books involve China, yet all have global relevance, e.g. effects of resource use, critical energy flows, Earth's biosphere, food, land and hydro power. He has become a leading expert in the West on China's energy, food and environment. He is a distinguished scientist engaged in explaining and generalizing his science for the betterment of humanity to a most unusual degree.
Prof. Barry E Smit
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Guelph
Keywords: climate change; impacts and adaptation; development
Induction Year: 2016
SMIT, Barry – Department of Geography, University of Guelph
Barry Smit is an acknowledged world leader in research on the human dimensions of climate change. His pioneering work on theory and methods, and his many applied studies around the globe, contributed to the development of the new field of climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The concepts are now widely used by researchers, governments and development agencies across Canada and internationally. His innovative contributions are recognized in his numerous awards.
Barry Smit est un expert de renommée internationale sur les dimensions humaines des changements climatiques. Sa recherche pionnière portant sur la théorie et les méthodes, ainsi que ses nombreuses études appliquées autour du monde, ont contribué au développement d’un nouveau champ de recherche sur les impacts, l’adaptation et la vulnérabilité aux changements climatiques. Ces concepts sont maintenant utilisés par les chercheurs, les gouvernements et les agences de développement international au Canada et à l’international. Il a reçu nombreux prix en reconnaissance de ses contributions novatrices.
Dr. Philip Smith
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Keywords: Archaeology, Prehistory, palaeolithic, neolithic, anthropology
Philip Edward Lake Smith is one of North America's leading Old World archaeologists. He has made important theoretical and substantive contributions to understanding man's prehistoric development, especially from an ecological perspective. His book "Le Solutréen en France" has become the definitive study of this important Upper Palaeolithic industry, while later excavations in Southern Egypt have revealed the hitherto unsuspected importance of cultural development in this part of Africa during the late Stone Age. His most recent excavations, at Tepe Ganj Dareh in Iran, have yielded equally important data concerning the earliest development of food production in Southwestern Asia. Professor Smith's theoretical studies of the role of population in prehistoric cultural development have attracted worldwide interest among his colleagues. He has also been most energetic in promoting the development of archaeology in Canada and has effectively represented Canadian archaeology internationally.
David Smith
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Helvétius, graffigny, voltaire, bibliographie matérielle, correspondance
David W. Smith, du département de français de University of Toronto, est à la fois LE spécialiste mondial du philosophe français Helvétius et un chercheur de réputation internationale pour ce qui est des études sur Voltaire et sur Mme de Graffigny.
Smith est un chercheur de tout premier ordre dans quatre domaines distincts mais interdépendants : l'histoire des idées, la bibliographie matérielle, les éditions de lettres et la biographie. Parmi ses publications majeures, on compte « Helvétius. A Study in Persecution » (Oxford, 1965; réimpression 1982); la « Correspondance générale » d'Helvétius (1981-), la « Correspondance » de Graffigny (1985-). Il est en train de terminer une bibliographie matérielle de tous les écrits d'Helvétius et de ceux de Mme de Graffigny.
Charles Smith
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: None
Keywords: History of science, energy, geology
Dr. Smith is an outstanding research geologist who combines a sound appreciation of classical descriptive and interpretative geology with application of the more quantitative disciplines of chemistry, physics and statistics. He is internationally known for his penetrating studies of ultrabasic rocks in Canada which have now been expanded as one of Canada's contributions to the International Upper Mantle Project, a project in which he is presently leading a team of 11 scientists, including 2 postdoctorate follows and 3 Ph.D. candidates. His initiative, reputation and interest have led to his nomination to many professional societies and committees. He is in wide demand as a guest speaker at Universities and national and international meetings. As his bibliography shows, Dr. Smith is a geologist of wide interests and broad experience. He is a scientist whose vigour, leadership and distinction make him a worthy candidate for Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada.
Dr. Daniel W. Smith
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Environmental engineering, wastewater, public health engineering, water, industrial wastewater
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Professor Daniel W. Smith has established himself as one of Canada’s preeminent environmental engineers and an internationally acknowledged water and wastewater treatment, and cold regions researcher. Dr. Smith’s dedicated research and resulting practical applications for water related issues have proven invaluable both at home and abroad. This has occurred as governments and the general public increasingly seek assurances regarding the safety and reliability of water supplies. Dr. Smith’s discoveries and their applications have extensive implications for the natural environment, urban infrastructure and sustainability of key resource industries. In addition, his published findings related to cold regions are still widely referenced information sources. Professor Smith has received numerous honours and has disseminated his important findings through more than 300 publications and the guidance of approximately 142 graduate students (35 Ph.D.). In 2013 he was elected an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Daniel W. Smith has established himself as one of Canada’s preeminent environmental engineers and an internationally acknowledged water and wastewater treatment, and cold regions researcher. Dr. Smith’s discoveries and their applications have extensive implications for the natural environment, urban infrastructure and sustainability of key resource industries. In 2013 he was elected an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Dr. Ian Smith
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Innovative Biodiagnostics Inc
Keywords: Magnetic resonance, cancer, spectroscopy, imaging, membranes
Dr. Smith represents that rare breed of scientist who has crossed disciplines with outstanding success. He has applied a strong background in physical and theoretical chemistry to the solution of significant problems in biochemistry. He has used the powerful tools of physical chemistry, electron spin resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance, to study the conformational structures of molecules in biological systems. These studies include nucleotides, peptide hormones, enzymes, nucleic acids, membranes, and polysaccharides and represent outstanding contributions to an understanding of structure-function relationships in biological systems. He has now turned his attention to applications of these methods to human medicine. He is the founder of the Institute for Biodiagnostics, an NRC institute in Winnipeg.
Dr. Leslie Smith
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Hydrogeology, groundwater contamination
Leslie Smith is honoured for his original research contributions to the field of hydrogeology. His work has encompassed stochastic analysis of fluid flow and solute transport, modelling of transport processes in fractured rock, consideration of thermal effects on groundwater flow, and the assessment of the role of groundwater flow in geodynamic processes. His approach has consistently integrated diverse methodologies and treated coupled physical phenomena. He has provided a hydrogeological perspective on many of the most important geological issues of the day.





