B.D. Sanwal is a distinguished exponent of the biochemical expression of the mechanisms of regulation and control of enzymes and enzyme pathways. His studies began with the metabolism of plant pathogens ('Fusarium') but by 1960 he became more and more involved in understanding enzyme regulation in 'Neurospora' and bacterial model systems. He has contributed importantly to knowledge of allosteric controls of amphibolic enzymic processes with alternative catabolic or biosynthetic pathways using the same set of enzymes but different initiating substrates. He has not restricted his interests in controls and he is also heavily involved in cytodifferentiation studies using myoblasts and neuroblasts. The clarity of his expression in these areas has been very influential.

LONG John Saul is one of Canada’s best know Africanists and a significant participant in national policy debates in the Republic of South Africa, as well as in other countries in the Southern African region, and even, as a long-time anti-apartheid writer and activist, in Canada itself. Indeed, he has shown expertise on a number of the nations of the southern part of the African continent and has written influential books and articles on each. His work has addressed major strategic development problems and profound moral issues, with significant theoretical and analytic sophistication and a fine mastery of historical detail. Canadian knowledge of southern Africa, and of politics and development in Africa generally, owe much to the high quality, committed scholarship of John Saul. SHORT Africanist John Saul is a significant participant in national policy debates in the Republic of South Africa and other countries in the Southern African region, and even, as a long-time anti-apartheid writer and activist, in Canada itself. His work addresses major development problems and moral issues, with significant theoretical and analytic sophistication and a fine mastery of historical detail. Canadian knowledge of politics and development in Africa owe much to his high quality, committed scholarship.

Shelley Saunders is an international leader in physical anthropology, whose research in skeletal biology has significantly advanced our understanding of growth, health, disease, mortality and demography in past human societies. She has conducted extensive studies of archaeological skeletal remains, including pre- and post-contact aboriginals of the Canadian Northeast, European immigrants to Canada, Egyptian pharaohs, as well as medieval French and ancient Roman populations. She pioneered an ancient and forensic DNA laboratory, as well as graduate training in this field in Canada.

Savory came to Toronto in 1960, as a Visiting Professor from the University of London. He was invited to stay and in 1961 joined Professor G. M. Wickens in founding the Department of Islamic Studies. In 1965 he became Associate Chairman, succeeding Professor Wickens as Chairman in 1968. Savory is one of a handful of world experts on Iranian history and Persian affairs generally. He is perhaps 'the' Western expert on the 16th/17th centuries in particular. A series of major articles on that period is acknowledged, particularly in the highly critical academic world of France and Germany, as standard work for decades to come. Among Islamists, Savory and his period are practically synonymous. His present major project is a critical study of traditional Iranian society.

DAVID W. SCHINDLER founded the Experimental Lakes Project of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in 1968. After directing the project for 22 years, he moved to the University of Alberta, where he has been the Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology since 1989. He has received numerous awards for his scientific work, including the first Frank Rigler Award of the Canadian Society of Limnologists, the Hutchinson Medal of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, the Naumann-Thienemann Medal of the International Limnological Society, the first Miroslaw Romanowski Medal of the royal Society of Canada, the Manning Award of Distinction for Innovation in Science, the first Stockholm Water Prize, the Volvo Environment Award, and the Gordin Kaplan Award. He has served as the president of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. He has received four honorary doctorate degrees from Canadian and American Universities, and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in 1983. He has published over 225 papers on a wide variety of topics in aquatic ecology and biogeochemistry, including eutrophication, acid rain, climate warming, and lake restoration.