Carl Franz Robinow was born in Hamburg (Germany) in 1909 and became a naturalized British subject in 1946. He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in the University of Hamburg in 1934. He then spent two years in the Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, and went to England in 1937 where he worked for the next ten years in London and in Cambridge. During this period his work involved the cytology of sponges, cytology of tissue cultures and life cycle of vaccinia virus, and the study of inclusion bodies. In England he started his work on the cytology of bacteria which has brought him world-wide renown and which has guided and stimulated the work of others in many countries. In 1948 he went to the United States as a Visiting Professor to four different universities and in 1949 accepted the appointment of Associate Professor of Bacteriology in the University of Western Ontario and became Professor there in 1956. The Royal Society of Canada awarded Dr. Robinow the Harrison Prize in 1957. His outstanding contribution for which he is so widely known and honoured relates to his studies of microbial structure - in particular, the very significant contribution made to the understanding of the form behaviour and nature of the "nucleoids" or "chromatin bodies" of bacteria.

During the past year Mr. Robson has been carrying out a further experiment on the decay of the free neutron. In this experiment a measurement is made of the energy spectrum of those beta particles emitted during neutron decay at a fixed angle relative to the direction of the recoiling protons. This difficult experiment is of great importance in the understanding of the basic beta decay process. Although the experiment is a long one, and is not complete, the present results are sufficient to identify uniquely the type of interaction causing the beta decay of radioactive substances.

Long Citation Ronald Rompkey's achievements in literary studies reflect a diversity of interests in Eighteenth-century British literature, Newfoundland and Labrador studies, and medical life writing. A master of biography, his sub-specialty is the scholarly editing of the personal narrative. Rompkey's work situates the people and places of his literary investigation in their historical, cultural, social and political contexts. His recent anthology of French travel literature on Newfoundland has opened up a new field of enquiry. His scholarship has been heralded as informative and entertaining, bringing national awareness to regional arts. Short Citation Ronald Rompkey's achievements in literary studies reflect a diversity of interests in Eighteenth-century British literature, Newfoundland and Labrador studies, and medical life writing. A master of biography, his sub-specialty is the scholarly editing of the personal narrative. His work situates people and places of his literary investigation in their historical, cultural, social and political contexts and his recent anthology of French travel literature on Newfoundland has opened up a new field of enquiry.

Fred Roots is Canada's most versatile environmental scientist, with a world reputation well supported by his curriculum vitae. He has a remarkable command over the major field sciences, most especially in northern and alpine areas. His work in environmental policy-making has been influential, and is based on a deep intellectual grasp of the underlying sciences, including the relevant social sciences.

Through his several books and many articles Professor Gideon Rosenbluth has established an international reputation as a specialist in industrial organization and as a statistician and econometrician. He is an economist with great technical competence and the highest of standards who never loses sight of the prime role of the of the social scientist to illuminate our understanding of society. He is particularly known for his books and articles on industrial concentration. He has made his contributions in association with Stanford University, Queen's University, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and latterly, the University of British Columbia. As an initiator of the special statistics conferences of the Canadian Economics Association he made an invaluable contribution to the improvement in the provision and use of economic statistics. His academic colleagues across the country recognized his outstanding qualities as a clear thinking forthright spokesman for the academic community by making him president of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, a position he filled with his usual distinction.