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Prof. Brian Jones
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Carbonate Sediments, Diagenesis, Hot Springs, Microbes, Sedimentology
Long Citation
Brian Jones is an earth scientist whose research reflects his fascination with the interaction between organisms and their environment. His pioneering and continuing work has convincingly illustrated the importance of microbes on the precipitation of carbonate, silica, and precious metals in hotspring systems throughout geologic history. His major studies detailing the taxonomy, paleobiology, and geochemistry of fossil brachiopods has been fundamental to the interpretation of vast areas of Arctic geology. He is currently using Grand Cayman Island as an extensive natural laboratory to understand the processes of carbonate sedimentation, ecology, geochemistry, and hydrology of ancient, isolated, hydrocarbon-rich, reef platforms.
Short Citation
Brian Jones is an earth scientist whose work has convincingly illustrated the importance of microbes on the precipitation of carbonate, silica, and precious metals in hotspring systems throughout geologic history. He is currently using Grand Cayman Island as an extensive natural laboratory to understand the processes of carbonate sedimentation, ecology, geochemistry, and hydrology of ancient, isolated, hydrocarbon-rich, reef platforms.
Nina Jones
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Guelph
Keywords: Signal Transduction, Phosphotyrosine, Human Disease
Induction Year: 2016
Nina Jones is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Eukaryotic Cellular Signalling at the University of Guelph. Her research investigates fundamental mechanisms of cell communication, and she has made significant contributions in understanding how such signalling pathways become deregulated in prevalent human pathologies such as kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Dr. Jones has received numerous awards throughout her career for her research accomplishments and community involvement.
Nina Jones est professeure agrégée et titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada (CRC) en signalement cellulaire eucaryote à l’University of Guelph. Ses recherches portent sur les mécanismes fondamentaux de la communication cellulaire. Nina Jones a apporté des contributions notables visant à comprendre comment ces voies de signalement se dérèglent dans certaines pathologies humaines répandues, telles que les néphropathies, les maladies cardiovasculaires et le cancer. La Prof. Jones a reçu de nombreux prix tout au long de sa carrière pour ses recherches et réalisations et son engagement communautaire.
Dr. Esyllt Jones
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Keywords: COVID-19, Covid-19, corona virus
Induction Year: 2022
Esyllt Jones studies the interactions between inequality, disease and social movements. Her contributions have earned her numerous awards and established her as an expert in twentieth-century Canadian social history. Dr. Jones has an exceptional ability to engage the broader public with her research. She is an innovative scholar whose work crosses boundaries between social history and medical history, and who builds meaningful connections between the university and the larger community.
Esyllt Jones étudie les interactions entre l’inégalité, la maladie et les mouvements sociaux. Ses contributions lui ont valu de multiples prix et l’ont défini en tant qu’experte de l’histoire sociale canadienne du 20e siècle. La Dre Jones est dotée de capacités remarquables pour sensibiliser le grand public à ces recherches. C’est une érudite dont les travaux novateurs franchissent les frontières qui séparent l’histoire sociale et l’histoire médicale. Elle crée des liens étroits entre l’université et la communauté au sens large.
Prof. Christopher Jones
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: Harvard University
Keywords: Ancient history, epigraphy, ancient literature
Four impressive books, over fifty learned papers and numerous incisive reviews have made U.ofT.'s Christopher JONES the outstanding expert on the Roman Empire in its greatest days. Immersed in its literature and skilled in imperial epigraphy, he is a world authority on the interaction of its Greek-speaking and Latin-speaking halves. He has been guest lecturer at many institutions (including Harvard and Paris' prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles), twice a Fellow of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, and repeatedly adviser to editors of learned periodicals such as "Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik" and "Phoenix".
W. Jones
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Early-modern England
Born in England in 1932 Professor William John Jones took his degrees at University College, London, and soon became the recipient of numerous academic honours and distinctions on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. His investigations of the late sixteenth century English legal system have resulted in a regular and notable series of publications on the law courts, in particular of the Elizabethan Chancery, which have added immensely to our knowledge in this field. His continuing work promises equally distinguished and informative studies for the future.
Dr. Russell G. Jones
RSC College Member
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2015
Russell Jones’ research program is focused on deciphering the molecular programs that regulate cell growth and proliferation and their alteration in cancer. Specifically, his research investigates fundamental molecular processes that integrate cellular energy metabolism with various signal transduction pathways, and how this regulates checkpoints for normal and cancer cells including T-lymphocyte survival, homeostasis and tumorigenesis as well as breast cancer metastatic progression.
Le programme de recherche de Russell Jones est focalisé sur l’étude des programmes moléculaires qui régulent la croissance et la prolifération cellulaires et leur modification dans le cancer. Ses travaux de recherche décortiquent les processus moléculaires fondamentaux qui intègrent le métabolisme cellulaire avec différentes cascades de signalisation. Dr. Jones identifient quels sont les éléments de contrôle des cellules normales et cancéreuses. Il étudie les molécules contribuant à la survie des lymphocytes T, à l’homéostasie, à la tumorigenèse et la progression métastatique du cancer du sein.
Prof. Steven Jones
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: BC Cancer Agency, The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Bioinformatics, genomics, oncology, drug discovery
Induction Year: 2011
Alister Jones
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: None
Keywords: Spectroscopy, aeronomy, magnetosphere, aurora
Dr. A. Vallance Jones, is now retired from his position as a Principal Research Officer with the National Research Council which he joined in 1968. Previously, he was a Professor of Physics at the University of Saskatchewan. He received his Ph.D. in 1950 from the University of Cambridge, his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in 1946 and 1945 respectively from the University of New Zealand. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His work has been primarily in the spectroscopy of aurora and airglow and in other studies of aurora by optical methods. He is a past associate editor (Space Science and Aeronomy) of the Canadian Journal of physics and past Chairman of the Aeronomy Division of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy. He also served for a number of years as secretary of the NSERC Grant Selection Committee on Space Science and Astronomy. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers and books on aurora borealis.
G. Melvill Jones
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Keywords: Neuroscience, spatial orientation, locomotion, vesitbular physiology, neural plasticity
Physiologist and test pilot, Melvill Jones won recognition for his pioneer analyses of bail-out stresses, pilot disorientation, and performance in long-duration flight. Later came his classical studies on (1) vestibular dynamics, (2) the vestibulo-ocular reflex (which stabilizes the retinal image during head movement), (3) human responses to vertical acceleration, and (4) the neural programmes involved in landing from a jump, and in dancing and running. Research on neural plasticity has been stimulated by his discovery that the vestibulo-ocular reflex attenuates, and eventually reverses, in volunteers wearing reversed-vision spectacles for several weeks. His advice and research collaboration have significantly influenced U.S. man-in-space programmes.
John Bryan Jones
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Biocatalysis, enzymes, protein engineering
Jones has made major contributions to a variety of areas of organic and bioorganic chemistry. These comprise the synthesis and conformational analysis of steroids; the mechanism and specificity of the enzymes of steroid metabolism and the effect of micellar aggregation on such metabolism; the mechanism of action of carcinogenic lactones; the structure and function of chymotrypsin; the utilization of enzymes in organic syntheses. It is in this last area that he is currently most active and Jones' pioneering work has made him a world leader in the use of enzymes as chiral catalysts for asymmetric synthesis.
Prof. Lyndon Jones
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
Keywords: Contact lenses; dry eye; ocular drug delivery
Induction Year: 2021
Lyndon Jones, an internationally renowned optometrist and biomaterial scientist, is recognised for his pioneering research relating to the science underpinning the interactions of novel and commercially available contact lens materials with the ocular surface, in addition to significant contributions relating to the etiology and management of dry eye. His ground-breaking work has resulted in the development of improved contact lenses and contact lens solutions for millions of wearers globally.
Lyndon Jones, optométriste et chercheur en biomatériaux de renommée internationale, est reconnu pour ses recherches pionnières dans le domaine des interactions entre les nouveaux matériaux de lentilles de contact et les matériaux disponibles dans le commerce et la surface oculaire, ainsi que pour ses contributions importantes à l'étiologie et à la gestion de l'œil sec. Ses travaux révolutionnaires ont permis de développer de meilleures lentilles de contact et des solutions pour lentilles de contact pour des millions de porteurs dans le monde.
Dr. Alexander Jones
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: History of astronomy, history of mathematics
Alexander Jones has established himself as a pre-eminent historian of the exact sciences in antiquity at an unusually young age. He has already produced two large and technically accomplished critical editions of important and significant texts: the seventh book of Pappus of Alexandria, which is a work of geometry, and the astronomical and astrological papyri from 0xyrhynchus. His greatest achievement so far, however, is in the field of intellectual history. Building on the work of Otto Neugebauer, with whom he is commonly compared as a scholar, Jones has demonstrated beyond the possibility of further doubt the profound indebtedness of ancient Greek astronomy of the classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods to Babylonian science, whose methods it inherited and developed.
Prof. Ian Jordaan
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Keywords: Mechanics, viscoelasticity, fracture, ice, probability
Induction Year: 2011
Cally Jordan
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: The University of Melbourne
Induction Year: 2025
Janelle Joseph
RSC College Member
Affiliation: Brock University
Induction Year: 2022
Janelle Joseph is Canada’s leading scholar of critical studies in race and sports. She is renowned nationally and internationally for her interdisciplinary research promoting anti-racism and intersectional inclusion through sports, leisure, and physical activity. Her activist work in Black communities is especially impactful. Recognized for the largest-ever study of anti-racism in university sport in Canada, her groundbreaking research has transformed sport, anti-racism policy, education, and practice in numerous national organizations.
Janelle Joseph est la sommité canadienne des études critiques sur la race et le sport. Elle est reconnue à l’échelle nationale et internationale pour ses recherches interdisciplinaires visant à promouvoir l’antiracisme et l’inclusion intersectionnelle par le biais des sports, des loisirs et de l’activité physique. Son œuvre d’activiste au sein des communautés noires est particulièrement porteuse. Reconnue pour avoir mené la plus grande étude jamais réalisée sur l’antiracisme dans le sport universitaire au Canada, ses recherches de pointe ont transformé les politiques, l’éducation et la pratique en matière de sport et d’antiracisme de nombreuses organisations nationales.
Dr. Sheena Josselyn
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: memory, neuroscience, optogenetics, circuits
Induction Year: 2020
JOSSELYN, Sheena - Neurosciences & Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, University of Toronto
Professor Sheena Josselyn is a world leader in investigating how the brain encodes, stores and uses information. Her studies break new ground and have changed the way the field of neuroscience views
memory. The fundamental insights gained by Prof. Josselyn’s research into basic memory processes in
rodents may translate into superior ways of treating - or even preventing - devastating human brain disorders.
The Honourable Serge Joyal
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: Sénat du Canada
Induction Year: 2015
Updated July 21, 2015
Serge Joyal is a jurist long recognized for his commitment to emerging rights and freedoms that have had a transformative impact. He speaks for them in Parliament and defends them in the courts. This innovative approach has enlarged the role of parliamentarians.
He advocates a humanist vision of law enriched by the conviction that our cultural and historical legacy is integral to a deeper understanding of our identity.
Updated July 21, 2015
JOYAL, Serge, Sénat du Canda
Serge Joyal est un juriste crédité d’une contribution atypique dans la reconnaissance des droits et libertés émergents qui ont transformé la société. Il les défend simultanément au Parlement et devant les tribunaux renouvelant ainsi la définition du rôle traditionnel d’un parlementaire.
Il prône une vision humaniste du droit enrichie par la conviction que notre héritage culturel et historique est partie intégrante d'une compréhension plus profonde de notre identité.
André Joyal
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Montréal
André Joyal has made profound contributions to four branches of mathematics using elegant categorical methods. He revolutionalized 'combinatorics' by letting coefficients of power series be finite sets. In 'topology', he replaced spaces by locales, dispensing with Euclid's points, and developed a categorical treatment of "braids", preparing for an attack on "knots" and "strings" in physics. In 'algebra', he significantly improved and generalized Grothendieck's Galois theory. In 'logic', he pioneered categorical models of type theory and is linked with the American philosopher in "Kripke-Joyal semantics" for intuitionistic higher order logic.
Susan Juby
RSC College Member
Affiliation: Vancouver Island University
Keywords: Creative Writing, teen Fiction, Young adult literature
Induction Year: 2014
Susan Juby has garnered numerous awards and accolades for her writing and been widely acclaimed as an innovator in the field of young adult fiction. She has contributed valuable research on publishing and served as a juror for national literary awards. A much sought after speaker, she’s given numerous presentations and workshops at home and abroad. She is the former Chair of Creative Writing and Journalism at Vancouver Island University.
Susan Juby a reçu de nombreux prix et louanges pour ses écrits, elle est une innovatrice renommée dans le domaine de fiction pour les adolescents. Elle a produit des recherches importantes sur l’édition et a servi comme membre de jury pour des prix littéraires nationaux. Une conférencière appréciée, elle a donné des communications et animé des ateliers au Canada et à l’étranger. Elle est l’ancienne directrice du département de création littéraire et de journalisme à Vancouver Island University.
Prof. Ellen Judd
RSC Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Keywords: Anthropology, china, gender, women, mobility
Long Citation
Ellen R. Judd is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work on women in modern rural China has made path breaking contributions to the anthropology of societies in post-socialist transition and on gender and kinship. Her innovative field research in China for over thirty years has allowed her to create a distinctive body of scholarship in the study of political economy, gender and cultural production. Her insights on how to conceptualize social processes in periods of profound disjuncture have had wide international influence, and much of it has been translated and published in China.
Short Citation
Ellen R. Judd is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work on women in modern rural China has made path breaking contributions to the anthropology of societies in post-socialist transition and on gender and kinship. Her innovative field research in China has allowed her to create a distinctive body of scholarship in the study of political economy, gender and cultural production and her insights have had wide international influence.
Prof. Joan Judge
RSC Fellow, Academy of the Arts and Humanities
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: modern Chinese history, print culture, history of knowledge, women's history
Induction Year: 2018
JUDGE, Joan - Department of History, York University
Joan Judge has reshaped understanding of modern Chinese history through methodologically innovative studies in Chinese print culture, periodical studies, and women’s history. Prominent among her publications are three books: Print and Politics: ‘Shibao’ and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China; The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China; and Republican Lens: Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press.
Prof. Jean-Philippe Julien
RSC College Member
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Structural Immunology, Antibodies, Vaccines, Glycoproteins
Induction Year: 2019
Jean-Philippe Julien uses structural and biophysical techniques to characterize how antibodies are made by the immune system, and how they recognize antigens. This information improves our understanding of immunity and guides development of new vaccine candidates for malaria and HIV. His discoveries also lead development of antibody therapeutics to deplete the dysregulated cells associated with autoimmune diseases and cancers.
Jean-Philippe Julien utilise des techniques structurelles et biophysiques pour caractériser la manière dont le système immunitaire fabrique des anticorps et reconnaît les antigènes. Ces travaux améliorent notre compréhension de l’immunité et alimentent les recherches de nouveaux vaccins contre le paludisme et le VIH. Ses découvertes conduisent également à la mise au point de traitements à base d’anticorps destinés à éliminer les cellules dérégulées associées aux maladies auto-immunes et aux cancers.
Prof. Jean Pierre Julien
RSC Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Université Laval
Keywords: souris transgéniques, sclérose latérale amyotrophique
Induction Year: 2016
Jean-Pierre Julien is a world leader in the field of neurodegenerative disorders, especially amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Through innovative mouse genetic and pharmacological approaches, he has made landmark discoveries on pathogenesis of ALS and discovered new therapeutic targets. He has pioneered the development of novel experimental treatments for ALS such as immunotherapies to reduce abnormal protein misfolding and natural product-based therapeutics to target the neuroinflammatory pathway.
JULIEN, Jean-Pierre – Département de psychiatrie et neurosciences, Université Laval
Jean-Pierre Julien est une sommité internationale dans le domaine des maladies neurodégénératives et notamment la sclérose latérale amyotrophique (SLA). Par des manipulations génétiques chez la souris et approches pharmacologiques innovantes, il a découvert de nouvelles cibles thérapeutiques pour la SLA. Il a été un pionnier dans le développement de thérapies expérimentales telles que des immunothérapies innovantes bloquant l’agrégation anormale de protéines et des composés dérivés d’une plante médicinale pour cibler la voie neuro-inflammatoire.
Prof. Mark Jurdjevic
RSC College Member
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: early moder Europe, Renaissance, Florence, Machiavelli, republicanism, political thought
Induction Year: 2015
A social historian of ideas, Mark Jurdjevic studies the political and intellectual history of early modern Europe. His books and articles have shown how abstract ideas became powerful agents of social and political change in the Italian Renaissance. Collectively, his scholarship excavates a dramatic and illuminating moment in a much larger debate about the relationship between the humanities, active conceptions of citizenship, and robust democracies.
Un historien social des idées, Mark Jurdjevic étudie l'histoire politique et intellectuelle de l'Europe moderne. Ses livres et ses articles ont démontré comment les idées abstraites sont devenues de puissants agents de changement social et politique dans la Renaissance italienne. L'ensemble de son érudition éclairci un moment dramatique et éclairante dans un débat beaucoup plus large sur la relation entre les sciences humaines, les conceptions actives de la citoyenneté, et des démocraties solides.