Keith William Hipel, Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, has gained national and international eminence for his unique interdisciplinary research on the development and application of conflict resolution and time series analysis techniques for addressing challenging systems management problems in water resources, environmental engineering and sustainable development. Hipel and his co-workers are the originators of the graph model for conflict resolution, which includes a novel theoretical structure for capturing the key characteristics of conflict, a range of stability concepts for modelling different kinds of human behaviour in strategic decision making situations, extensive implementation algorithms, coalition analysis, and a decision support system for permitting practical applications. His research on time series analysis has had significant influence in stochastic hydrology by providing rigorous approaches to environmental impact assessment and a novel explanation to the Hurst Phenomenon. July 2017 - MIROSLAW ROMANOWSKI MEDAL HIPEL, Keith – University Professor of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo; Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation; Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs Keith W. Hipel is globally renowned for his pioneering contributions to environmental systems engineering via the development of systems-thinking methodologies for tackling complex physical and societal systems aspects of environmental problems to arrive at sustainable resolutions that are integrative, adaptive and fair to stakeholder groups. To achieve this, Hipel has made seminal advances in conflict resolution, multiple-objective decision-making, stochastic hydrology, environmental impact assessment, and equitable water allocation within a system-of-systems perspective.

July 2017 - LA MEDAILLE MIROSLAW ROMANWOSKI HIPEL, Keith – Professeur de génie de conception des systèmes, Université de Waterloo; agrégé supérieur, Centre d'innovation en gouvernance internationale; agrégé, Balsillie School of International Affairs Keith Hipel a acquis une renommée mondiale pour ses travaux d'avant-garde en génie des systèmes environnementaux, incluant le développement d’approches de pensée systémique visant à traiter les enjeux environnementaux problématiques par voie de leurs complexes systèmes physiques et sociaux, permettant ainsi d’arriver à des résolutions durables axées sur l'intégration et l’adaptabilité, tout en faisant justice aux groupes d’intervenants. En ce faisant, Hipel a contribué des percées déterminantes dans les domaines de résolution des conflits, de prise de décision face à de multiples objectifs, de modélisation stochastique en hydrologie, d’études d'impact environnemental, et de répartition équitable des ressources d’eau, le tout gardant toujours une perspective de « système de systèmes ».

HIRD, Myra J. – School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University Myra J. Hird is a distinguished interdisciplinary scholar with an international reputation for her multifaceted, collaborative investigations into science studies and environmental issues. Through her critically acclaimed books and articles, collaborations and public engagement activities, Hird explores how social sciences and humanities may engage with scientific knowledge to better respond to a wide range of global issues, including climate change, human-animal relations, and the nature and future of waste.

HIRD, Myra J. – School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University Myra J. Hird est une chercheuse interdisciplinaire distinguée jouissant d’une réputation internationale pour ses travaux réalisés en collaboration sur les études scientifiques et les questions environnementales. Par ses livres et ses articles, bien reçus par la critique, par ses collaborations et ses engagements publics, Myra Hird explore la façon dont les sciences sociales et humaines peuvent s’arrimer aux connaissances scientifiques afin de mieux répondre à un large éventail d’enjeux mondiaux, dont les changements climatiques, les relations homme-animal ainsi que la nature et le traitement des déchets.

HIRSCHL, Ran – Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Ran Hirschl is one of the world’s most influential scholars of comparative constitutional law, courts and jurisprudence. Original, bold, methodologically innovative and staggeringly productive, he has pioneered rigorous study of the causes and consequences of the global movement to endow high courts with the power of judicial review. He has made significant contributions to the interdisciplinary exploration of comparative constitutionalism, and to our understanding of the field’s history, methodology and practice worldwide.

HIRSCHL, Ran – Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Ran Hirschl est l’un des chercheurs les plus influents dans le monde en matière de droit constitutionnel comparé, de tribunaux et de jurisprudence. Original, audacieux, innovant sur le plan méthodologique et incroyablement productif, il est à l’origine de l’étude systématique des causes et des conséquences de la tendance mondiales qui consiste à doter les hautes cours d’un pouvoir de contrôle judiciaire. Il a apporté d’importantes contributions à l’exploration interdisciplinaire du constitutionnalisme comparatif et aux connaissances relatives à l’histoire, à la méthodologie et à la pratique dans cette discipline. Ses travaux sont reconnus mondialement.

Long Citation Adam Hitchcock has made pioneering contributions to near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy of core levels in molecules, surfaces and solids. His work includes analytical studies and instrumentation development, using both synchrotron radiation and laboratory-based sources. He is a leading contributor to the emergence of the new technique of scanning transmission x-ray microscopy as a high resolution imaging method for materials research, that is sensitive to both composition and chemical bonding. He has demonstrated scientific leadership in the development and planning of the Canadian Light Source as an internationally competitive new Canadian research facility. Short Citation Adam Hitchcock has made pioneering contributions to near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy of core levels in molecules, surfaces and solids. He is a leading contributor to the emergence of the new technique of scanning transmission x-ray microscopy as a high resolution imaging method for materials research. He has demonstrated scientific leadership in the development and planning of the Canadian Light Source as an internationally competitive new Canadian research facility.

Renée Hložek of the University of Toronto is one of the world's leading young cosmologists. Her experimental and theoretical analyses of the cosmic microwave background and the largescale distribution of galaxies have illuminated the nature of dark matter, as well as the size, age, geometry, and mass-energy content of the universe.

Renée Hložek, de l’université de Toronto, est l’une des jeunes cosmologistes les plus éminentes du monde. Ses analyses expérimentales et théoriques du fond diffus cosmologique et de la distribution à grande échelle des galaxies ont permis de mieux comprendre la nature de la matière noire et cerner la taille, l’âge, la géométrie et le contenu masse-énergie de l’Univers.

Bob Hodges is Canada's premier synthetic-peptide chemist and is internationally recognized as being at the leading edge of peptide chemistry. Using synthetic peptides he has made major contributions in our understanding the structure of tropomyosin and in identifying the active site regions of several muscle proteins such as troponin-I as well as regions of interaction between the various members of the troponin-tropomyosin complex. His studies with the calcium binding peptide analogs of the troponin C/calmoduli calcium binding sites have given clear-cut chemical rationales as to the metal specificity of these sites and why some are high-affinity and others are low-affinity. Dr. Hodges has also expanded into new and promising areas such as the technology and production of antibodies to proteins from synthetic peptide antigens. In addition, he has provided a very valuable resource to other investigators in Canada requiring the design and synthesis of tailor-made peptides through the Alberta Peptide Institute which he directs. His international stature is also indicated by the regularity with which he serves as a key-note speaker in symposia dealing with peptide chemistry, calcium binding proteins and HPLC chromatography, and his extensive and significant bibliography of some 152 publications.

Professor David Hodgins is one of the world’s most eminent scholars of addiction studies whose influential work advances scientific inquiry and practice. His research and leadership in international initiatives have set directions in science and interventions for addictions, profoundly changing how scholars, practitioners, and policymakers understand the psychology of gambling. Hodgins’ widely adopted treatment and relapse prevention interventions for gambling problems have helped thousands of individuals and their families worldwide.

David Hodgins est l'un des plus éminents professeurs de l'étude des dépendances dont les travaux influents font progresser la recherche et la pratique scientifiques. Ses recherches et son rôle de chef de file dans des initiatives internationales ont défini les orientations prises par la science ainsi que les interventions en matière de toxicomanie, modifiant profondément la compréhension du jeu par les chercheurs, les praticiens et les décideurs politiques. Les traitements et les interventions de prévention des rechutes pour les problèmes de jeu, largement adoptés par Hodgins, ont aidé des milliers de personnes et leurs familles dans le monde entier.

LONG Dr. Hoefer enjoys international recognition as scholar, author, educator, technical leader and journal editor in microwave engineering and computational electromagnetics. He laid the foundations for E-plane circuit design by translating electromagnetic field theory and mathematical formalism into novel computer-aided design tools. He pioneered time domain modeling of analog and digital circuits, and made seminal contributions to the principal time domain numerical methods employed today: Transmission Line Matrix (TLM), Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD), and Wavelet (MRTD) Modeling. The hallmark of his research is his capacity to translate scientific insight into powerful computational techniques and vital design tools that have become industry standards. SHORT Wolfgang Hoefer enjoys international recognition in microwave engineering and computational electromagnetics. He laid the foundations for E-plane circuit design by translating mathematical electromagnetic field theory into novel computer-aided design tools. He pioneered time domain modelling of analog and digital circuits, and made seminal contributions to the principal methods employed today.

Paul Felix Hoffman's publications and lectures have won him international recognition as one of Canada's most brilliant young geologists. His well conceived and beautifully documented field work in the Bear-Slave region of the Precambrian Shield has resulted in exciting new concepts which suggest that Plate tectonic processes and the Wilson Cycle were operative more than 2,000 million years ago in the Coronation Geosyncline. Thus the belt reflects the opening and closing of an ocean basin along the northwestern margin of North America. Furthermore he was the first to recognize that Proterozoic basins adjoining the Coronation Geosyncline are probably aulacogens representing failed arms of triple-armed rifts. As a result of an incredible rate of detailed mapping, he has demonstrated that the deformation of the Athapuscow Aulacogen was characterized by northward gliding nappes - the first demonstration of this type of tectonics in the Precambrian Shield. Finally, he is an outstanding lecturer having been honoured as a 'distinguished Lecturer' by several North American geological societies.

P.C. Hoffmann is a scholar of international stature who has analyzed the temper, structure and techniques of the domestic opposition to Hitler in a series of magisterial and exhaustive studies in five languages ranging from the philosophical and political motivations of the opposition movements to the techniques of conspiracy to the countervailing system of personal security surrounding the dictator. The fundamental question posed of the limits of obedience gives these scholarly studies a resonance which far transcends the immediate boundaries of the subject involved.

Jim Hogg is the world's leading lung pathologist. His work has been cited over 2500 times since 1980 and at least one of his papers is a SCI Classic. Among many other accomplishments he was the first to: 1) determine the site of airways obstruction in chronic bronchitis and emphysema pointing out the importance of small airway inflammation in this disease; 2) measure bronchial epithelia permeability starting the current explosion of new knowledge in cystic fibrosis and asthma in this area; 3) study neutrophil kinetics and their margination in pulmonary capillaries in relation to the pathogenesis of emphysema.