Gordon H. Dixon is one of the world' s leading protein chemists. In addition to determining the amino acid sequence of the active center (catalytic site) of the enzyme chymotrypsin, the first enzyme for which this was done, and showing the way by which similar studies might be applied to other enzymes, he was one of the leaders of a group of workers who determined the structure of haptoglobins and drew attention to chemical differences in genetically different haptoglobins. A few years ago, a group of protein chemists in Pittsburgh, Pa., succeeded in synthesizing the A & B chains of insulin, and they sent these chains to Dixon in Canada for assembly into a complete insulin molecule, which he successfully accomplished.

Lubomir Dolezel has contributed with distinction to a number of areas of study: Czech, Russian and comparative literary history, linguistics and linguistic studies of literary works, post-structural and semiotic approaches to texts. He has also been the scholar who has done the most to initiate and develop the theory of possible worlds, i.e. the narratological approach permitting the precise analysis and interpretation of the means used in the "creation" of fictional worlds in literary works. The number of references to his books and other major statements, including a very great number of his articles, is truly staggering. All his accomplishments, but especially the possible world theory, have given him the highest international profile in literary theory and methodology held by any Canadian scholar since Northrop Frye.

Murray Donnelly has made an extraordinary contribution In scholarship, in university government and in the application of his wide and thorough knowledge of political science to the services of both federal and provincial governments. He has written two highly commended books, "The Government of Manitoba" and "J.W. Dafoe of the Free Press", has contributed to other volumes of studies on government and has written many articles. Provost of University College of the University of Manitoba and a member of the university's Board of Governors, he has been and is currently a member of two important Royal Commissions.

Dr. Dray's early training was in history, but while at Oxford he became interested in philosophy. Philosophical problems connected with the methods used by historians particularly engaged him. His first book, "Laws and Explanation in History" (1957), broke new ground in an old controversy about the sort of explanation historians seek to offer. In a penetrating and original discussion., Dr. Dray showed that historical explanations are different from, but no less effective than, scientific explanations. This thesis led him to make some telling criticisms of the positivistic doctrine that all explanations consist in bringing an event under a general, covering law. A great deal of fruitful investigation has followed the appearance of this book, and Dr. Dray has continued in other publications to amplify and develop his main position. He is Canada's leading authority on the philosophy of history, and one of half a dozen major scholars in this field in the English speaking world. His work is marked by analytical penetration, lucid argument and felicity of expression, and displays a broad and firm grasp of the subject-matter with which it deals. His more recent books include Perspectives on History (1980), On History and Philosophers of History (1989), Philosophy of History (rev. edn. 1993), and History as Re-enactment (1995). He was editor, with Leon Pompa, of Substance and Form in History (1981), with Davic Carr et al of Philosophie de l'histoire et la pratique historienne d'aujourd'hui (1982), and with W.J. van der Dussen of R.G. Collingwood: The Principles of History (1999).