Professor Grace is Canada's most eminent engineer and scientist in the field of fluidization. He has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of gas-solid fluidized beds, to the clean burning of fuels by fluidized bed combustion, to a new environmentally friendly process for producing hydrogen by steam reforming and to our understanding of other multiphase operations, including gas-liquid flow, gas-solid spouting, liquid fluidization and gas-liquid-solid fluidization.

Professor Ralph Haas is an internationally eminent road and pavement engineer who has made original contributions in materials characterization and structural analysis, performance modelling, high speed automation of in-service pavement evaluation and network optimization procedures. His pioneering pavement management concept involves a unique and comprehensive integration of component technologies, life-cycle economic analyses and decision processes. His work has had a profound impact on advancing the field of pavement engineering.

LAUTENS, Mark - Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto Mark Lautens is an internationally recognized organic chemist who invents new chemical reactions that produce pharmaceutically interesting molecules in a more efficient manner. He has developed metal catalyzed and multicatalytic processes that more rapidly produce complex molecular scaffolds while reducing waste. His work has advanced our understanding of how to control the outcome of chemical reactions and how different catalysts can be designed to operate in tandem. His work has been recognized by investiture as an Officer in the Order of Canada, promotion to University Professor, by a Doctor of Science, honoris causa from his alma mater (Guelph), by a Killam Fellowship and in 2001 election to FRSC.

Mark Lautens est un chimiste organicien de réputation internationale qui a inventé des réactions chimiques qui produisent avec une grande efficacité des molécules d’intérêt pharmaceutique. Il a développé des procédés multi catalytiques métalliques qui produisent de façon rapide des assemblages moléculaires tout en réduisant l'émission de produits toxiques dans l'environnement. Ses recherches ont permis d’améliorer la compréhension des mécanismes qui contrôlent les réactions chimiques et ont permis d’identifier des principes pour guider la conception de catalyseurs qui fonctionnent en tandem. Ses travaux lui ont valu d’être nommé officier de L’Ordre du Canada, un doctorat honoris causa de l’Université de Guelph, une bourse de recherche Killam et, en 2001, il a été élu à la Société royale du Canada.

John (Jack) McConnell is an eminent Atmospheric Modeller who has made contributions to knowledge of the processes taking place in the atmospheres of the earth and planets. He is internationally recognized for his contributions on the physics and chemistry of the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus and on the chemistry and dynamics of the earth's atmosphere, the formation of stratospheric ozone holes, and problems relating to the pollution of the troposphere.

Robert Molday is an outstanding scientist and recognized international leader in research into vision and diseases leading to blindness. His contributions include the development of monoclonal antibodies to rhodopsin and other components of cells of the retina; the pioneering characterization of photoreceptor membrane proteins by biochemical and molecular biological methods; and the identification of genes and proteins responsible for human blindness.

George Pemberton is one of the world's experts in ichnology. He is a skilled clastic sedimentologist, palaeontologist, sequence stratigrapher, and petroleum geologist. The main thrust of his research is on the application of ichnology to petroleum exploration and exploitation and its use in sequence stratigraphy. Recent work includes the application of ichnology to the flow of fluids through reservoirs in both clastic and carbonate settings.

Nancy Margaret Reid has made fundamental and deep contributions to the mathematical theory of statistics. Her many articles and authoritative work on conditionality, likelihood and higher order asymptotics have been farreaching and of great importance in the foundations of statistical argument and inference.

Andre Salama has, through his extraordinary innovation and creativity and his leadership in academic research, made outstanding contributions to semiconductor device research and analog and digital integrated circuit design. He, with his graduate students, has made major contributions to the design, development and implementation of novel microelectronic devices and integrated circuits

Andrew Weaver is a world leader in the science of climate dynamics and an authority on computer modelling of past, present and future climate systems. Using coupled models of the Earth's climate system, he has explored the mechanisms that control modern climate and those that controlled climate variability in the geological past. He is an extremely effective spokesperson on global change issues.

Dolph Schluter is Canada's foremost evolutionary biologist. He developed the analytical tools for measuring natural selection surfaces. His field studies showed that species occupy peaks on selection surfaces corresponding to features of environment, and that resource competition promotes peak shifts in adaptive radiation. He demonstrated that speciation in nature was caused by divergent natural selection, and that adaptive divergence is biased in the direction of maximum genetic variance within populations.

Dr. Chris Bleackley is a biochemist and molecular biologist who has been responsible for the discovery and delineation of the major cytotoxic pathway used by T lymphocytes. His work has had international impact and has been crucial in understanding how the immune response controls virus infection, transplantation rejection and cancer. He is both a Howard Hughes International Research Scholar and MRC Distinguished Scholar and his work represents some of the most important achievements in immunology in Canada in the past fifty years.