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Donald Bures
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
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Donald Bures began his college work by winning a General Motors scholarship. He completed the four year mathematics program at Queen's University in three years and the M.A. and Ph.D. program at Princeton in three years. For his doctoral thesis he became an expert with infinite tensor products of von Neumann algebras and wrote a thesis which Professor C. C. Moore describes as 'a superb paper in a very difficult area'. This praise should not be taken lightily for Professor Moore is one of the outstanding analysts of this continent. Since then Bures has published four other articles, each of which made a solid contribution based on deep analysis and new techniques, yielding new and important results. These papers are appraised in the attached letters from Professors Moore, Glimm and Stormer. Although he is not yet very old, Professor Bures has directed several very good doctoral theses, namely those of: Charles Kerr, Ole Nielsen, David Promislow and P. K. Tam. Professor Bures' work is known to operator algebraists throughout the world and he is esteemed as one of the leading workers in the field.
Donald Beecher
Affiliation: Carleton University
Keywords: English language and literature
Induction Year: 2016
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BEECHER, Donald A. – Department of English Language and Literature, Carleton University
Donald Beecher is known globally as a major force in Renaissance Studies in Canada. The impact of his work in literary criticism, scholarly editions, folklore, and the history of ideas have reshaped the canons of Renaissance theatre, prose fiction, and early music. He has organized numerous international conferences, travelled widely as a visiting scholar, earning for him a CSRS lifetime achievement award and a Carleton Chancellor’s professorship.
Donald Beecher est reconnu internationalement en tant que grand spécialiste des études sur la Renaissance. Ses travaux de critique littéraire, ses éditions scolaires sur le folklore, et sur l’histoire des idées ont contribué à refaçonner le répertoire, non seulement du théâtre de la Renaissance, mais aussi de la fiction en prose, et de la musique ancienne. En plus d’avoir été l’organisateur de nombreuses conférences internationales, il a été professeur invité un peu partout dans le monde, ce qui lui a mérité le prix accordé par la Société de la Renaissance du Canada pour l’ensemble de sa carrière, et d’avoir été désigné « Chancellor’s Professor » à Carleton University.
Prof. Donald Dingwell
Affiliation: University of Munich - LMU
Keywords: MAGMA, SILICATE MELTS, RHEOLOGY, VOLCANISM, EARTH SYSTEM
Induction Year: 2010
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Dingwell, Donald Bruce - Experimental Geosciences - University of Munich - LMU
For the establishment of the experimented investigation of melts and magma as a vital component of earth sciences, with implications for earth evolution, element enrichment volcanic mitigation and the physical chemistry of the liquid state.
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Dingwell, Donald Bruce - Experimental Geosciences - University of Munich - LMU
Donald Dingwell has established the experimental investigation of the properties and behavior of magma as a vital component of the earth sciences. He has led the transformation of petrology and volcanology into disciplines where the principles of physicochemical materials are routinely applied, yielding great advances in our understanding of the role of the melting in the evolution of the earth and terrestrial planets; the enrichments of chemical elements to economic levels in major ore deposit; the interpretation and guidance of monitoring of active volcanic systems; and the fundamental physical chemistry of the liquid state as a viewed from high temperature silicate melts.
Dr. Donald Hunten
Affiliation: The University of Arizona
Keywords: Physics, astronomy, planets, atmospheres
Deceased Date: 2010-12-14
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Dr. Donald M. Hunten is an outstanding atmospheric and space scientist who is a world leader in the understanding of planetary atmospheres. Following graduate studies in nuclear magnetic resonance he moved to the University of Saskatchewan where he joined a group engaged in upper atmospheric studies. There he developed a major observing program for the study of alkali metals in the upper atmosphere and was an outstanding instrument builder. During his tenure in Saskatchewan he trained many of Canada's present leaders in space research. In 1963 he moved to Kitt Peak National Observatory where he continued his studies of the terrestrial atmosphere and also became interested in the atmospheres of other planets. In 1977 he moved to the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizon. He was the first to determine the surface pressure on Mars. He has led much of NASA's work on planetary exploration. He was the first person to recognize the importance of the Roland and Molina work on CFCs and in 1975 even suggested that these gases should be banned. Donald Hunten's outstanding career has been recognized with many awards, possibly the most distinguished being the COSPAR Space Science prize. Although officially retired he continues to provide unparalleled guidance to the next generation of international space scientists.
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Donald M. Hunten is an outstanding atmospheric and space scientist who is a world leader in the understanding of planetary atmospheres. He developed a major observing program for the study of alkali metals in the upper atmosphere and trained many of Canada's present leaders in space research. He became the first to determine the surface pressure on Mars. He has led much of NASA's work on planetary exploration.
Prof. Donald Douglas
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: mass spectrometry, instrumentation, proteins, ions
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Donald Douglas is known for his contributions to mass spectrometry. First in industry, then at the University of British Columbia through an Industrial Research Chair, Douglas has used his strong background in physical chemistry to make many innovative contributions to new instrumentation and to fundamental studies of ion chemistry. He is noted for developing the first commercial inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer system for trace element analysis, for new technologies leading to high performance bench top mass spectrometers, and for his fundamental studies of protein ions. Many of his inventions have been commercialized in Canada.
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Donald Douglas has used his strong background in physical chemistry to make many innovative contributions to new instrumentation and to fundamental studies of ion chemistry. He developed the first commercial inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer system for trace element analysis, developed new technologies leading to high performance bench top mass spectrometers, and contributed to fundamental studies of protein ions.
Amir Z. Fam
Affiliation: Queen's University
Keywords: fibre-reinforced polymers; bridge construction; concrete structures
Induction Year: 2016
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Amir Fam is the Donald and Sarah Munro Chair in Engineering and Applied Science at Queen’s University. He is an internationally-recognized authority in the field of fiber-reinforced polymer stay-in-place structural forms and tubes for concrete bridge columns and decks – an area of major current significance as it revolutionizes the way bridges and structures are built, rendering them immune to corrosion and deterioration, hence generating greater longevity and improved safety.
Amir Fam est doyen associé (recherche et études supérieures) et titulaire de la chaire Donald et Sarah Munro en génie et sciences appliquées à la Queen’s University. Il est internationalement reconnu dans le domaine des formes structurelles permanentes en polymères renforcés de fibres et des tubes à destination des tabliers et colonnes de pont en béton. Un domaine capable de révolutionner et d’accélérer la construction de ponts et structures, les rendant ainsi résistants à la corrosion, pour une meilleure longévité et une sécurité accrue.
Jennifer Llewellyn
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Induction Year: 2020
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Jennifer Llewellyn is a leading public intellectual on justice transformation and a world leader in restorative justice. Her scholarship and practice have been ground-breaking for justice systems and other social institutions. She is the Yogis & Keddy Chair in Human Rights Law and the Donald R. Sobey Foundation Chair in Restorative Justice and founded the first Restorative Research, Innovation and Education Lab. She won the SSHRC Impact Award in 2018.
Jennifer Llewellyn est une intellectuelle publique de premier plan dans le domaine de la transformation de la justice et une leader mondiale de la justice réparatrice. Ses travaux universitaires et sa pratique ont été révolutionnaires pour les systèmes judiciaires et d’autres institutions sociales. Elle est titulaire de la Chaire Yogis & Keddy en droit de la personne et de la Chaire de la Fondation Donald R. Sobey en justice réparatrice. Elle a également fondé le premier laboratoire de recherche, d’innovation et d’éducation en matière de réparation. Elle a remporté le prix Impact du CRSH en 2018.
Dr. Donald Layne
Deceased Date: 2012-11-21
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Donald S. Layne has achieved international recognition for research recorded in more than 60 papers and 4 review chapters. His doctoral thesis characterized the steroids of avian species and opened the way for work on the control of egg-laying. Post-doctoral work included the identification of a key intermediate of estrogen metabolism and the first evidence of a plasma binding protein for aldosterone. He initiated studies of the metabolism of 19-norsteroids and is regarded as an authority on contraceptive steroids. Recent work has established the importance of glycoside conjugates of steroid hormones, including N-acetyl glucosaminides, which are of toxicological interest. Donald Layne is an accomplished teacher and administrator and has given generously of his professional talents to his colleagues and his country.
Dr. Donald Stuss
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Neuropsychology, neurological disorders, neurobehaviour, brain-behavour relations
Deceased Date: 2019-09-03
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Donald Stuss is one of the world’s foremost neuropsychologists. His pioneering work on the frontal lobes of the human brain led to important advances in our knowledge of the relations between brain and mind, and also paved the way for new methods of assessment and rehabilitation following brain injury. His current research focuses on “fractionating” the frontal lobes into component functional areas. Dr. Stuss is also a brilliantly effective research leader and manager. He is one of these rare individuals who can inspire and organize others while still maintaining his position as an international leader in his own area of research.
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Donald Stuss’s pioneering work in neuropsychology has led to important advances in our knowledge of the relations between brain and mind, paving the way for new methods of rehabilitation following brain injury. He is a brilliantly effective research leader and manager inspiring others while still maintaining his position as an international leader in his own area of research.
Dr. John Borrows
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Indigenous law and constitutional law
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Professor Borrows is widely regarded as the leading Aboriginal legal academic in Canada. He is a recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award for his work in law and justice. He holds five degrees and the Law Foundation Chair in Aboriginal Justice at UVIC. He is a prolific scholar. His Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law, was awarded the Donald Smiley Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association 2002. His Aboriginal Legal Issues: Cases, Materials and Commentary is used in almost every law school in Canada and his articles are frequently cited by the Supreme and other Courts. He works tirelessly with the Department of Justice, inquiries, treaty and mediation negotiators, and Aboriginal organizations to promote dialogue among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada and internationally.
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Professor Borrows is widely regarded as the leading Aboriginal legal academic in Canada. He is a recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award for his work in law and justice and holds five degrees and the Law Foundation Chair in Aboriginal Justice at UVIC. His Aboriginal Legal Issues: Cases, Materials and Commentary is used in almost every law school in Canada and his articles are frequently cited by the Supreme and other Courts.
Dr. Donald Dawson
Affiliation: Carleton University
Keywords: Stochastic processes, probability theory
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Donald Dawson has made a broad variety of basic contributions to the description and analysis of physical systems in which random elements play an essential role. He works at the heart of modern probability theory and at such a level of generality that virtually any temporal model is a particular case of his work, but he seems always to have an eye open towards practical applications. In particular he has introduced the concept of multiplicative or branching measure diffusion process and created the method of hierarchical mean field limits.
Dr. Merlin Donald
Affiliation: Queen's University
Keywords: Cognition, brain, evolution, symbolic technology, consciousness
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Professor Merlin Donald has had, in a sense, two careers. First, he has had a distinguished career as an experimental neuroscientist working mainly in the technical fields of human electrophysiology and neuropsychology. Second, in the last decade he has turned to theoretical work on cognitive evolution, producing a remarkable book, "Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition", a work of vast synthesis which has achieved international acclaim and provoked widespread discussion.
His second book, "A Mind So Rare: The evolution of human consciousness" was published in the Spring of 2001 by W.W. Norton, New York. He subsequently served as Head of Psychology at Queen's. In 2005, he became Professor Emeritus at Queen's and became founding Chair of the Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. In 2010 he was appointed Honorary Professor at Aarhus Unversity, Denmark and in 2016, Fellow of the Swedish Collegium, Uppsala.
Prof. Janet Donald
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: higher education, post secondary instruction, post secondary learning, knowledge validation, thinking processes
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Janet Donald is a distinguished researcher in higher education who has changed the way universities view disciplines, student learning and the postsecondary instructional process. Her work in disciplinary differences in knowledge validation and models of thinking, and in the university learning environment has transformed the instructional process. She has also made significant and sustained contributions in the broader context of faculty development and university renewal through her studies on academic leadership, supervision, and the evaluation of postsecondary education.
Lisa Golombek
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Islam, art history, architecture, material culture, Iran
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Lisa Beth Golombek, West Asian Department, Royal Ontario Museum, is Canada's most distinguished historian of Islamic Art. Her two-volume work (written in collaboration with Donald Wilber), "The
Timurid Architecture of Iran and Turan", is universally acclaimed as the definitive statement on this important period in Islamic architecture. Eclectic in her interests, she has just sent to press another major book, "Tamerlane's Tableware: Chinoiserie Ceramics of Fifteenth-sixteenth Century Iran and Central Asia". All of her scholarship is enriched and enlivened by her unique determination to study the arts of Islam in such a way as to illuminate all other aspects of Islamic life and culture.
Dr. Donald McRae
Affiliation: University of Ottawa
Keywords: International, trade, oceans, boundaries (maritime).
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Donald McRae is an internationally renowned scholar with a prodigious output in the fields of international maritime boundaries and international trade regulation. This work has shaped Canada's own position on several maritime boundaries disputes, and has clarified how states and scholars understand the interaction of law and policy in this domain. He has advanced new views of how international trade disputes should be settled.
Dr. Donald Meichenbaum
Affiliation: University of Waterloo
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Donald Meichenbaum can easily be considered Canada's leading researcher and theoretician in the area of clinical psychology. Indeed, he is clearly among the very best clinical researchers in the world, a reputation achieved remarkably early in his career. His two major books on cognitive behavior modification and stress-inoculation training have been translated into several languages and have had a major impact on both theory and clinical practice. In general terms, Meichenbaum has been influential in reinstating mind into behavioral psychology, with enormous benefits to our understanding of people and their problems.
Zenon Pylyshyn
Affiliation: Rutgers University
Keywords: Vision, attention, philosophical foundations
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Zenon Pylyshyn is internationally recognized for his contributions to the establishment and development of the field of Cognitive Science. His research and writing on the 'architecture of the mind' and the computational processes involved in human perception and reasoning has led to over 60 scientific articles and six books, among them the now classic "Computation and Cognition" published in 1984.
His numerous honors and awards include the Donald 0. Hebb award for distinguished contributions to the science of psychology, a Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the presidency of the Cognitive Science Society. He served for nine years as National Director of the program in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research before taking up his present post as Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
Dr. Donald Redford
Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University
Keywords: Egyptology, archaeology, history, philosophy, semitics
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Donald Bruce Redford, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Toronto, has distinguished himself as philologist, historian and archaeologist. Author of a score of articles and three books, he has also participated in numerous excavations in Jordan and Egypt. He is Director of the Akhenaten Temple Project which is reconstructing the scenes on the walls of a temple dismantled in antiquity. This vast jigsaw is being assembled from over 35,000 scattered limestone blocks. Professor Redford's contributions in the field and in his publications have played an important part in putting the University of Toronto in the forefront of Egyptological studies.
Dr. Nabil Seidah
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Keywords: Enzymology, molecular biology, protein analysis, neuroendocrinology, gene structure
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Dr. Nabil Seidah was trained at Georgetown University in physical chemistry before joining the Institute first as as post-doctoral fellow and then as director of the laboratory on biochemical neuroendocrinology. Dr. Seidah is the co-discoverer of human beta-endorphin and has worked on its biosynthesis for four to five years demonstrating in particular the exact sites of cleavage during pulse-chase experiments. For this work, he received the Clarke Institute Award in 1978 (Toronto). He was the first to develop, in collaboration with the late Margaret Dayhoff, (in the mid 1970's) computer programs to identify protein fragments from data of partial sequence at 10-15 M range. Since 1979, he has tackled one of the most crucial and central aspects of brain chemistry which is the characterization of the enzymatic systems for the cleavage of precursors at pairs of basic amino acid residues. Only a few scientists have had the courage and the determination to tackle this complicated problem. He, Donald Steiner, Peng Loh and J. Thorner are the main leaders in the field. Even though the international competition was very high, Dr. Seidah is the first to have identified a new family of enzymes by reverse genetics which has all the properties of the cleavage enzyme.
Dr. Seidah is a superb protein biochemist and he has added molecular biology to his wide expertise by spending one year sabbatical at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1987. He is now working on the protein aspect of his discovery and he is superbly prepared to bring it to fruition. Dr. Seidah is a chemist who has become an excellent biochemist and a world leader in his field. The new enzymes he discovered, called convertases, are at the crossroads of the new chemistry of the brain i.e. the neuropeptides. The cleavage of their precursors is a universal phenomenon which helps the brain to produce the tens of thousands of molecules it needs to insure his numerous and varied functions.
Dr. Donald Betts
Affiliation: St. Francis Xavier University
Keywords: Statistical physics, theoretical physics, condensed matter physics, lattice statistics, zero temperature
Deceased Date: 2012-10-23
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In the last decade Professor Donald D. Betts has gained an international reputation in the field of Statistical Mechanics and Critical Phenomena. Of outstanding significance are his studies of the dynamical and critical properties of the Ising and X-Y models, which led to his investigations on the lattice-lattice scaling and a formulation of a generalised law of Corresponding States. These researches have brought order and unity into a difficult group of problems and have substantially helped in coordinating our modern understanding of critical phenomena. Also, his earlier work on lattice dynamics, despite being 20 years old, is still found useful and widely quoted.
Dr. Norman Endler
Affiliation: York University
Keywords: Stress
Anxiety
Coping
Deceased Date: 2003-05-07
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Norman S. Endler is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University and is one of the leading academic psychologists in North America. Recognized by his peers with fellowships in both the Canadian and American Psychological Associations, Endler's enormous scholarly output has won him great distinction. His work on conformity and on the multidimensional interactional model of stress, anxiety, and coping has been used repeatedly by other scholars and practitioners. Among his many books are "Personality at the Crossroads: Current Issues in Interactional Psychology" and "Holiday of Darkness". Recently, Dr. Endler co-edited "Handbook of Coping" with M. Zeidner. He is a recipient of the Killam Research Fellowship, the Innis-Gérin medal for Distinguished and Sustained Contribution to the Social Sciences including Psychology from the Royal Society of Canada, and the Donald 0. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Science from the Canadian Psychological Association.
Dr. Donald Solitar
Affiliation: York University
Deceased Date: 2008-04-25
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Professor Donald Solitar has dealt with difficult problems in the theory of infinite groups which arise in other areas of mathematics. His work has stimulated and helped the work of others. In particular, the Subgroup theorem on a free product with an amalgamated subgroup is of great importance, and subsequent papers have a deep effect upon infinite group theory.