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Dr. Donald Layne
Deceased Date: 2012-11-21
Donald S. Layne has achieved international recognition for research recorded in more than 60 papers and 4 review chapters. His doctoral thesis characterized the steroids of avian species and opened the way for work on the control of egg-laying. Post-doctoral work included the identification of a key intermediate of estrogen metabolism and the first evidence of a plasma binding protein for aldosterone. He initiated studies of the metabolism of 19-norsteroids and is regarded as an authority on contraceptive steroids. Recent work has established the importance of glycoside conjugates of steroid hormones, including N-acetyl glucosaminides, which are of toxicological interest. Donald Layne is an accomplished teacher and administrator and has given generously of his professional talents to his colleagues and his country.
Mr. Roland Le Huenen
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Littérature, romantisme, balzac, Française, voyage
Deceased Date: 2020-09-13
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Roland Le Huenen est un chercheur de renommée internationale dans le domaine des études balzaciennes et de la littérature de voyage. Co-fondateur du Groupe International de Recherches Balzaciennes dont il demeure un des piliers, il a, par ses nombreux travaux, abondamment cités et considérés comme des références incontournables, jeté des éclairages nouveaux et féconds tant sur l'oeuvre de Balzac que sur la littérature de voyage. Chercheur de premier plan, il est un des plus grands spécialistes de la littérature du dix-neuvième siècle.
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Roland Le Huenen est un chercheur de renommée internationale dans le domaine des études balzaciennes et de la littérature de voyage. Co-fondateur du Groupe International de Recherches Balzaciennes dont il demeure un des piliers, il a jeté des éclairages nouveaux et féconds tant sur l'oeuvre de Balzac que sur la littérature de voyage.
Mr. Roger Le Moine
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: Littérature québécoise du 19e siècle
Littérature exotique de la Renaissance française
Histoire des idées
Socio-critique
Psychocritique
Deceased Date: 2004-07-12
Roger Le Moine, professeur à l'Université d'Ottawa, est un chercheur reconnu. Ses publications (9 livres ou monographies et une soixantaine d'articles savants) l'attestent hautement. Spécialiste de la
littérature et de l'histoire, surtout du XIXe siècle, il est l'homme de la trouvaille astucieuse, fondée sur le document et le renseignement de première main, qu'il puise aux fonds de sa prestigieuse tradition familiale (les Buies-Le Moine-Savard) aussi bien qu'aux dépôts d'archives publics ou privés. On comprend que la Société des Dix, illustre dans la recherche historique, l'ait invité à joindre ses rangs.
Dr. Hughes Leblanc
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Montréal
Keywords: Free Logic
Truth-value semantics
Probability semantics
Induction
Deduction
Deceased Date: 1999-09-10
Hugues Leblanc is the most important Canadian logician of his generation. His contributions lie in three areas, in each of which he has expanded the frontier of research in fundamental and greatly valued ways. They are (1) free logic, (2) truth-value semantics and (3) probability theory. All three are areas calling for considerable technical virtuosity, and each deals with problems of celebrated difficulty.
There is a recurring motif discernible in Professor Leblanc's work. It involves finding fault with received theories on grounds of philosophical inadequacy, and then supplanting them with more satisfactory alternatives. The trick is to try to get the alternatives to match the originals in technical power. This Leblanc has managed to do with impressive consistency, and is the measure of his importance to technical philosophy.
Dr. Paul LeBlond
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Fisheries/salmon conservation, BC History
Deceased Date: 2020-02-08
Paul LeBlond has established an international reputation for his exploratory work on the basic properties of a wide variety of oceanic wave motions and their interactions with currents and shorelines. He has worked in Kiel and Moscow, presented a lecture series in Havana, and, in collaboration with L. A. Mysak produced the major text "Waves in the Ocean", which is recognized as the definitive text on many aspects of this subject. Through lectures, publications, editorial activities, activities as a visiting professor in Quebec and Nova Scotia, and as a stimulating teacher and researcher, he has done a great deal to develop oceanography in Canada and is held in high esteem by his colleagues. He was one of a small group which in 1977 succeeded in bringing oceanographers and meteorologists together in a common society, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. In recent years, LeBlond has been active in ocean conservation, fisheries and science policy, serving on Fisheries Resource Conservation Councils on Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well as with national and international organisations.
Dr. Charles Leblond
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Cell biology
Histology
Cell renewal
Tissue renewal
Radioautography
Deceased Date: 2007-04-10
A pioneer of radioautography, he converted histology from a descriptive to a dynamic discipline and developed quantitative dimensions in cell biology (Flavelle Medal 1961). In his 89th year of life, Dr. Leblond remains a brilliant practising scientist, publishing on an average 5 original articles per year in peer-reviewed major journals, attending conferences, and delivering lectures. His current research, related to the medical sciences, embraces: ultrastructure and origin of neural glial cells; renewal of the seminifarous epithetium; biosynthesis of the epith hormone; biosynthesis of collagen; ultrastructure of the cell cycle; renewal of epithelial cells in gastric and intestinal glands; immunocytochemistry of basement membranes. A hero to legions of students and colleagues, this nomination salutes a Canadian scientist of international fame who refuses to recognize retirement in science.
Mr. André Lecours
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Deceased Date: 2005-06-12
Depuis plus de 20 ans et ce, sur une base continue, André Lecours a su contribuer de façon remarquable à l'avancement des connaissances en ce qui a trait à la représentation cérébrale du langage et des effets des lésions cérébrales acquises en tant que source de l'aphasie. Directeur du Centre de recherche Côte-des-Neiges, titulaire de la chaire de gériatrie et professeur titulaire à la Faculté de Médecine de l'Université de Montréal, André Roch Lecours a poursuivi ses remarquables travaux aux confins de la neurologie, de la linguistique et de la psychologie. Il a su intégrer ces diverses disciplines, afin d'aborder l'un des aspects les plus complexes du fonctionnement cérébral, soit le langage. En catalysant les forces vives des linguistes, des neurologues, des neuro-psychologues et des orthophonistes, membres de ses groupes de recherche, André Lecours a non seulement été à l'origine de percées scientifiques importantes relativement aux bases neuro-biologiques du langage, mais il a pu aussi aider de nombreux malades atteints d'aphasie. Ses contributions exceptionnelles aux connaissances d'une des fonctions cérébrales les plus propres à l'homme en font un candidat de premier choix pour l'Académie des Sciences de la Société Royale.
Dr. Karolis (Karl) Lederis
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Deceased Date: 2007-03-17
Dr. Karl Lederis did pioneering studies on the brain neurohormones of the posterior pituitary gland, or neurohypophysis, in vertrabrate animals to claify the mechanisms of neurohormone storage and secretion. More recently he discovered a unique and important action of the neurohypophysial neurohormone oxytocin in energy metabolism. He has been a leading figure in determining the structure of the peptide neurohormones secreted from the tail-end or urophysis of the spinal cord of fishes. Studies on these special peptides have led to unique findings on the role of peptides in the regulation of blood pressurein fishes and mammals. Synthesis of one of the urophysial peptides (urotensin I) revealed its high potency in the secretion adrenocorticotropin, smilar to the mammalian brain peptide corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH). More recently, collaboration with Director and members of the Institute for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Hamburg (Germany) led to the determination of precursors and genes and receptors for fish corticotropin releasing factors (CRF).
Dr. Geoffrey Leech
Deceased Date: 2012-04-17
Geoffrey Bosdin Leech is a Cordilleran geologist on the staff of the Geological Survey of Canada. He is noted for a breadth of interests which embraces virtually all the sciences that contribute to modern geology. His reports reflect mature comprehension of such diverse disciplines as palaeontology, structure, sedimentation, mineralogy, geochemistry, and isotope geology. Conclusions based on penetrating and balanced interpretation of all these aspects of geology are earning for Dr. Leech a reputation as a thorough and philosophical scientist. HIs keen interest in the history of Western Canada gives promise of contributions to the Society in the field of the humanities as well as in geology.
Mrs. Micheline Legendre
Deceased Date: 2010-01-05
Marionnettiste de carrière active depuis 1945, Micheline Legendre a fondé le Théâtre de marionnettes de Montréal. Dès lors sa présence est constante tant au Canada qu'à l'étranger. Dès 1951, elle est la première marionnettiste nord-américaine à représenter le Canada au premier Congrès de la marionnette d'après-guerre, tenu à Düsseldorf en Allemagne. Elle est de tous les congrès et de tous les festivals organisés par l'Union internationale de la marionnette (UNIMA). Au cours de sa carrière elle donne environ 16 000 représentations devant 1 200 000 spectateurs des soixante-huit spectacles qu'elle a conçus et montés et où s'animent 1600 personnages. Elle milite également dans les milieux littéraire et politique : cofondatrice de la revue Cité libre, elle est aussi des premières heures de Rassemblement, mouvement fondé par P. E. Trudeau et Pierre Dansereau. Elle publie en 1986 Marionnettes – Art et tradition chez Leméac. Pour toutes ces raisons elle reçoit le titre de Chevalier de l'Ordre du Québec en 1991 et est nommée Officier de l'Ordre du Canada en 1998.