David W. Smith, du département de français de University of Toronto, est à la fois LE spécialiste mondial du philosophe français Helvétius et un chercheur de réputation internationale pour ce qui est des études sur Voltaire et sur Mme de Graffigny. Smith est un chercheur de tout premier ordre dans quatre domaines distincts mais interdépendants : l'histoire des idées, la bibliographie matérielle, les éditions de lettres et la biographie. Parmi ses publications majeures, on compte « Helvétius. A Study in Persecution » (Oxford, 1965; réimpression 1982); la « Correspondance générale » d'Helvétius (1981-), la « Correspondance » de Graffigny (1985-). Il est en train de terminer une bibliographie matérielle de tous les écrits d'Helvétius et de ceux de Mme de Graffigny.

David Chadwick Smith's research and scholarly work has resulted in a substantial flow of publications from the time that he completed his graduate work onward. His best-known work is perhaps that on incomes policies for which he has gained an international standing and reputation. His work on monetary and fiscal policy, on economic planning, and on higher education is also widely-known and highly regarded. Mr. Smith's very considerable writings on public policy have the great virtue of always being based on sound theoretical underpinnings. In addition, Mr. Smith has made a large indirect contribution to scholarly work in Canada in the performance of his duties as Department Chairman of a major economics department for thirteen years, as director of economic research for a royal commission on the economic union and development prospects for Canada, and as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University for ten years. He placed much emphasis on recruiting first-rate staff and maintaining a climate that encourages and facilitates the best in research work and postsecondary education.

D. A. S. Fraser graduated from the University of Toronto in 1946 after obtaining Honorable Mention as a member of the winning team in the Putnam Competition of that year. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1949. Since then he has been on the staff at Toronto with terms as visiting professor at Stanford, Princeton, Geneva, Wisconsin and Copenhagen. He has published 120 papers and five books on statistics. These significant contributions to statistical theory have been recognized by election to Fellowships in the Royal Statistical Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Statistical Association. He was recently offered a professorship at Princeton, which he declined, to the great advantage of Canadian students, thirty-five of whom have taken their Ph.D.s under his direction, with five now in progress. He therefore makes a great contribution to the study of statistics in Canada.