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Dr. Trevor Platt
Affiliation: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Keywords: Oceanography, biogeochemistry, climate, climate sensing, ecosystem
Deceased Date: 2020-04-06
Using the analytical mind of a physicist, Dr. Platt has brought to biological oceanography new concepts in quantitative ecology. He has developed mathematical descriptions of photosynthesis, statistical studies on the representativeness of samples, a theory on size structure of pelagic populations, reanalysed data on the global oxygen and C02 fluxes in the ocean and worked on the nature of the submarine light field in the context of remote sensing. His theoretical and practical work has been applied to practical problems such as determining the absolute yield of renewable resources from the sea and to the problem of atmospheric CO2 accumulation. He is active on many international committees and has received 5 medals for his distinguished contributions to oceanography.
Dr. Francis Plummer
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Keywords: HIV / AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, Kenya, immunity, infectious diseases
Deceased Date: 2020-02-04
Long Citation
Francis Plummer is a physician-scientist, with an eclectic interest in the study of human infections. He is best known for work on AIDS. His studies of HIV-1 in Africa led to the identification of mechanisms of heterosexual transmission of HIV-1 and ultimately the development of highly effective interventions, which are in use world-wide in combating HIV-1. His current work focuses on mechanisms of natural protective immunity in a group of HIV-1 resistant prostitutes in Kenya. This now classic work has helped to rejuvenate and guide HIV-1 vaccine research. He has authored more than 250 research articles and reviews.
Short Citation
Francis Plummer is a physician-scientist, with an eclectic interest in the study of human infections. His studies of HIV-1 in Africa led to the identification of mechanisms of heterosexual transmission of HIV-1 and ultimately the development of highly effective interventions, which are in use world-wide in combating HIV-1. His work on mechanisms of natural protective immunity in a group of HIV-1 resistant prostitutes in Kenya has helped guide HIV-1 vaccine research.
Mr. Paul-Hubert Poirier
Affiliation: Université Laval
Keywords: Histoire du christianisme ancien, patristique, orientalisme chrétien
Deceased Date: 2024-05-15
Paul-Hubert Poirier est professeur de patrologie et d'histoire du christianisme à l'Université Laval. Spécialiste des langues orientales : syriaque, égyptien, pharaonique, copte, éthiopien (guèze), arménien et géorgien, il est récipiendaire de la bourse Killam (1988-90) et chercheur au Projet Nag Hammadi (Univesité Laval).
Il co-dirige la collection « Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi », qui comprendra éventuellement plus de 40 volumes. Il a contribué plus de quarante articles à des revues savantes : « Laval Théologique et Philosophique », « Studies in Religion », « Le Museon », « Science religieuse », « Archaeologia », etc., il compte déjà à son crédit sept volumes et a aussi collaboré à trente-cinq ouvrages collectifs.
Dr. Peter Pope
Affiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Keywords: historical archaeology, material history, cod fishery, early modern Newfoundland, vernacular capitalism, maritime cultural landscape, early modern ceramics
Induction Year: 2012
Deceased Date: 2017-04-06
POPE, Peter E. - Department of Archaeology and Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Peter Pope’s methodologically innovative research has shifted historical opinion to recognize the central place of Newfoundland and the cod fishery in the early-modern Atlantic world. He has raised thought-provoking questions about the invention of tradition, early modern vernacular capitalism and maritime cultural landscapes, giving a clear voice to a Canadian perspective, among those who are trying to better understand the evolution of the Atlantic world.
POPE, Peter E. - Départements d’archéologie et d’histoire, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Par ses recherches à la méthodologie innovatrice, Peter Pope a poussé les historiens à reconnaître l’importance de Terre-Neuve et de la pêche à la morue aux débuts de la période moderne. Il a soulevé des questions importantes sur le rôle de la tradition, sur le capitalisme local de l’époque et sur le paysage culturel maritime, faisant ainsi valoir un point de vue canadien auprès de ceux qui s’efforcent de mieux comprendre l’évolution des pays bordant l’Atlantique.
Dr. Arthur Porter
Keywords: Education
Deceased Date: 2010-02-26
In the 1930's, Dr. Porter participated at Manchester and MIT in the pioneering work on modern computers, and since then has been involved in many of the new and exciting areas of applied science. He has led research teams both in industry and at universities in the application of computer technology to medicine, communications, management, education and simulation. He has left behind him at several Canadian and British institutions fruitful teams of workers infected by his own enthusiasm. His prolific writings are widely read and re-read For example, his "Introduction to Servomechanisms" published 20 years ago is still regarded as a classic.
Paul Potter
Affiliation: Western University
Keywords: History of Greek and Roman Medicine, ippocrates/Ancient Greek Medicine/ Loeb Classical Library/Corpus Medicorum Graecorum
Induction Year: 2016
Deceased Date: 2025-04-03
POTTER, Paul – Professor Emeritus, Western University
Paul Potter has spent over forty years studying the medieval Greek manuscripts containing the ancient writings attributed to Hippocrates of Cos, sometimes referred to as the “Father of medicine”. On the basis of this work, Potter has edited the original text and provided an accompanying English translation of a considerable portion of the Hippocratic Collection in five volumes of the bilingual Loeb Classical Library published by Harvard University Press.
Paul Potter s’est engagé pendant plus de quarante ans dans l’étude des manuscrits médiévaux contenants les textes anciens attribues a Hippocrate de Cos, appelé parfois le père de la médecine. Sur la base de ces travaux, M. Potter a édité le texte original et donné une traduction anglaise d’une partie considérable de la collection Hippocratique dans cinq tomes de la série bilingue Loeb Classical Library publiée par Harvard University Press.
Mr. Gilles Potvin
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Deceased Date: 2000-09-04
Le Canada français connaît, depuis quelques années, une floraison artistique sans précédent où la musique occupe une place de choix. Cet essor doit beaucoup au travail patient de ceux qui, comme Gilles Potvin depuis des décennies, font l'éducation tant des artistes que du public.
Le travail de Gilles Potvin à Radio-Canada, sa collaboration régulière et éclairée au « Devoir » et son rôle de maître d'oeuvre de l'« Encyclopédie de la musique au Canada », entre autres activités, ont fait de lui le critique musical par excellence du Canada français. Sa présence enrichit notre Académie qui sait s'ouvrir non seulement aux mots mais aussi aux sons.
Dr. Elton Pounder
Affiliation: McGill University
Deceased Date: 2006-05-30
Professor Elton Roy Pounder for seventeen (17) years has devoted himself to the study of the physical properties of ice. During that period, because of his papers and through the discussions in which he has participated, he has been recognized as world authority on this subject. He is author of a monograph on the physics of ice and contributor to two compendia on that subject; he is joint author of a well known text book on elementary physics. He has kept well abreast of modern physics. He has made many contributions to education in Quebec, at all levels.
Dr. V. Prest
Affiliation: Natural Resources Canada
Keywords: Quaternary
Geology
Glacial
Stratigraphy
History
Deceased Date: 2003-09-26
Victor Kent Prest is Head of the Pleistocene, Engineering, and Groundwater Section of the Geological Survey of Canada and is an outstanding authority on Pleistocene geology. He compiled the Glacial Map of Canada for the Atlas of Canada and was a major contributor to the "Glacial Map of Canada" published by the Geological Association of Canada. Among his other contributions is an able and authoritative discussion of the Pleistocene geology in Canada in "Geology and Economic Minerals of Canada". Dr. Prest heads an active group whose enthusiasm and productivity owes much to his leadership. Important recent advances in our knowledge of the Pleistocene record in Canada are due in large measure to the contribution of Dr. Prest and of his group.
Melvin Preston
Affiliation: McMaster University
Keywords: Theoretical particle physics
Deceased Date: 2016-11-01
Melvin Alexander Preston, Professor of Physics, McMaster University, is a nuclear theoretical physicist with an international reputation. A graduate from the honour Mathematics and Physics course of the University of Toronto, with a master's degree later in applied mathematics, he received his Ph.D. in mathematical physics from the University of Birmingham in 1949. During World War II he served as Captain in the Royal Canadian Artillery and Technical Staff Officer in the Directorate of Artillery. Until 1953 he was on the staff of the University of Toronto and Visiting Professor at Chalk River in the summers. Since 1953 he has been on the staff of McMaster. He is well known for his extension of the theory of alpha-decay, review work on beta-decay and its nature, and work on nucleon forces with repulsive cores.
Dr. Huw Pritchard
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Computational kinetics, combustion, computational chemistry
Deceased Date: 2019-08-09
Huw Owen Pritchard is one of that rare breed who has made major contributions both in experimental and in theoretical chemistry. He has innovated ingenious new techniques in precision calorimetry and has measured rate constants of free radical rate constants over wide temperature ranges spanning the critical point of the solvent. He was one of the pioneers in theoretical work on molecular bonding and electronegativity and among the first to apply computer techniques to these problems. He has made definitive examinations of vibrational and rotational relaxation in diatomic molecules leading to new theories of the dissociation of diatomic molecules and its converse, atomic recombination. This, in turn has led him to a complete revaluation of unimolecular reaction theory based purely on molecular dynamics which has provided predictions in much closer agreement with experiments than those provided by previous theories.