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Dr. Carlos Prado
Affiliation: Queen's University
Induction Year: 2013
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Carlos Gonzalez Prado’s scholarly works have made substantial contributions both to bridging the analytic/continental divide in contemporary philosophy and to applied ethics. His publications on Michel Foucault have contributed enormously to demonstrating the relevance and significance of Foucault’s work for contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. His publications on suicide in dire medical circumstances have enlarged the debate about suicide to include its rationality as well as its ethical justification.
Carlos Gonzalez Prado a grandement contribué aux travaux sur la réconciliation entre la philosophie analytique et la philosophie continentale et sur l’éthique appliquée. Ses publications sur Michel Foucault ont démontré la pertinence et l’importance des travaux de ce penseur français pour la philosophie anglo-américaine contemporaine. Ses ouvrages sur le suicide dans des circonstances médicales difficiles ont élargi le débat sur le suicide en vue d’inclure les aspects rationnels et éthiques.
Satya Prakash
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2022
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Satya Prakash is a world-renowned scientist, entrepreneur, and innovator in the fields of microbiome, probiotics, artificial cells, targeted therapeutics delivery and next-generation cardiac stents. He discovered key links between the gut microbiome and metabolic diseases, as well as developed novel targeted drug and gene delivery platforms. His groundbreaking work on the role of the microbiome in disease has led to the world’s first-of-its-kind health-promoting probiotic formulation that reduces blood cholesterol.
Satya Prakash est un scientifique, un entrepreneur et un innovateur de renommée mondiale dans les domaines du microbiome, des probiotiques, des cellules artificielles, de la prestation des thérapies ciblées et des endoprothèses coronaires de nouvelle génération. Il a découvert des liens essentiels entre le microbiome intestinal et les maladies métaboliques et a élaboré de nouvelles plateformes d’administration des médicaments et la transmission génétique ciblées. Ses travaux révolutionnaires sur le rôle du microbiome dans les maladies ont conduit à la mise au point de la première formulation probiotique au monde améliorant la santé et réduisant le cholestérol sanguin.
Alexandre Prat
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Keywords: Neuroimmunologie, sclérose en plaques, immunologie humaine et animale, barrière hémo-encéphalique, endothélium, inflammation, lymphocytes
Induction Year: 2015
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Neurologue et chercheur accompli, Alexandre Prat a permis par ses travaux de redéfinir les fondements moléculaires, cellulaires et fonctionnels de la barrière hémato-encéphalique, de comprendre son mode de régulation dans le cerveau adulte et d'élucider ses multiples dysfonctionnements dans les maladies inflammatoires chez l’adulte et chez l’enfant. Sa recherche novatrice est à l’origine de thérapies originales et extrêmement prometteuses, actuellement en développement pour le traitement de la sclérose en plaques.
Accomplished Neurologist and Neuroscientist, Alexandre Prat’s work on the human Blood-Brain Barrier allowed defining new molecular mechanisms regulating the physiology of the human brain, as well as important dysfunctions involved in diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis in adult and children. Highly innovative scientific work from his lab serves as the basis for novel pharmacological strategies to favor drug entry into the brain and for novel treatment of brain diseases.
Prof. Jay Pratt
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Visual attention; visual cognition; eye movements; inhibitory movements
Induction Year: 2019
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PRATT, Jay - Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Jay Pratt is internationally renowned for his ground-breaking studies on how humans allocate attention
across the visual field and how certain types of visual information are prioritized by the brain. His
research has catalyzed several new lines of research worldwide, including how actions bias activity in
visual pathways, how concepts and symbols generate shifts of visual attention, and how much volitional
control can be exerted over reflexive attentional processes.
Prof. Robert Pratt
Affiliation: University of Toronto
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Cranford Pratt has already distinguished himself as an outstanding Canadian scholar in the field of African studies. Six years of his academic career have been spent in Africa, four of them as the first Principal of the University College, Dar es Salaam, which is large measure his creation. It is, however, as a scholar that he is best known: his work on the political problems of newly-independent developing nations has made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to Western understanding of them.
Prof. Geraldine Pratt
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: transnational feminism, diasporic politics, temporary labour migration
Induction Year: 2011
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Doina Precup
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2022
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Doina Precup is noted for her fundamental contributions to reinforcement learning specifically for her contributions to temporal abstraction through the concept of options, the invention of the option-critic architecture, her pioneering work on bisimulation metrics, her many theoretical and practical contributions to the development of RL algorithms and her contributions to the use of machine learning in medicine that have made a difference in practice.
Doina Precup est reconnue pour ses contributions fondamentales à l’apprentissage par le renforcement, en particulier pour ses contributions à l’abstraction temporelle, notamment le concept des options, l’invention de l’architecture option-critique et ses travaux révolutionnaires sur la mesure de la bisimulation, ses nombreuses contributions théoriques et pratiques à l’élaboration d’algorithmes d’apprentissage automatique et ses contributions à l’utilisation de l’apprentissage automatique en médecine, qui ont amélioré la pratique.
Dr. Alison Prentice
Affiliation: University of Victoria
Keywords: History, Canadian, education, women, professions
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Through her research, writing, and editorial work, historian Alison Prentice, Professor Emerita, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, and Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria, has pioneered two new fields of intellectual endeavour in Canada: the history of education and women's history. Her widely-acclaimed studies of public schooling in nineteenth-century Ontario which revealed the hitherto unacknowledged social forces that presaged education reform in the industrial age, inspired a whole new approach to educational history. As author and editor of scores of ground-breaking publications on Canadian women's history, she has earned international recognition and played a major role in laying the foundations for the study of women's history in Canada and abroad.
Prof. Cindy Prescott
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Keywords: Forest ecology, ecosystem, forest soil, carbon, tree nutrition, nutrient cycling, forestry
Induction Year: 2024
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Dr Cindy Prescott is a Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. Her research spans the interface between forest ecology and forest management, advancing forest science and ensuring that forest management decisions that are based on solid scientific evidence. Her research has challenged several widely held beliefs, which she tested through her own experiments and through critical analysis of existing evidence.
Prof. Cindy Prescott est professeure au département des sciences forestières et de la conservation de la University of British Columbia. Ses recherches couvrent l’interface entre l’écologie forestière et la gestion forestière, faisant progresser la science forestière et garantissant que les décisions en matière de gestion forestière sont fondées sur des preuves scientifiques solides. Ses recherches ont remis en question plusieurs croyances largement répandues, qu’elle a testées au moyen de ses propres expériences et d’une analyse critique des preuves existantes.
Dr. Raymond Price
Affiliation: Queen's University
Keywords: Structural geology adn tectonics, science and public policy
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As a result of his investigations in the Rocky Mountains, Dr. Price has thrown considerable light on the complexitites of the region, integrating structural and physical theories in his interpretation of the nature of the deformation both on a small and grant scale. He has established principles and techniques applicable to the study of mesoscopic subfabrics in deformed unmetamorphosed strata and delineated fundamental geometric attributes of folds that are critical to a reconstitution of the mechanisms of folding. He has contributed new and important concepts to the establishment of a regional framework of the physical stratigraphy, particularly of the Proterozoic, Devonian and Mississippian sequesnces and the larger geological structures of northern Yukon and the southern Rocky Mountains. He has proposed a model relating spatially and temporally the metamorphic regimes of the Western Cordillera with the decollement thrust sheets of the Eastern Cordillera. Dr. Price was awarded the Gold Medal in Science from the Univeristy of Manitoba and the Higgins and Procter Fellowships from Princeton University.
Dr. J. Robert Prichard
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Law, public policy, finance, media, higher education
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Long Citation
Robert Prichard is an institution-builder, indeed, a nation-builder. Throughout his career, he has worked to foster an environment in which the creation of knowledge and the exchange of ideas can flourish and be rewarded. As an academic, he contributed to leading intellectual debates. As a university administrator, he steered a university to further greatness and was an influential advocate of the cause of higher education. As the CEO of a leading media conglomerate and public figure, he continues to bring his influence to bear on issues of major importance in the public sphere.
Short Citation
Robert Prichard is an institution-builder, indeed, a nation-builder. Throughout his career he has worked to foster an environment in which the creation of knowledge and the exchange of ideas can flourish and be rewarded. As an academic, he contributed to leading intellectual debates. As a university administrator, he steered a university to further greatness and was an influential advocate of higher education.
Mr. Gilles Pronovost
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Keywords: Culture, temps, loisir, pratiques culturelles, générations
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Gilles Pronovost, professeur au département des sciences du loisir et de la communication sociale de l'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, est un spécialiste reconnu internationalement dans le domaine de la sociologie, de la culture, et des temps sociaux. Il a réalisé de nombreuses recherches empiriques notamment sur les transformations des pratiques culturelles et sur l'emploi du temps. Ses ouvrages ont été publiés au Canada, en France, en Belgique et en Angleterre. Il a également été très actif au sein de sociétés savantes, au plan national et international, sociétés qu'il a le plus souvent présidées.
Dr. David Proud
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Keywords: asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, epithelial cell, rhinovirus, inflammation, host defense
Induction Year: 2012
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PROUD, David - Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Calgary
Dr. David Proud has made important contributions to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that trigger the symptoms of inflammatory airway diseases, such as asthma. In addition, his translational studies on how common respiratory viruses trigger attacks of asthma and other lower airway diseases, and on the body’s own defense mechanisms against such viruses, have identified novel treatment approaches for viral exacerbations of lower airway diseases.
PROUD, David - Département de physiologie et de pharmacologie, University of Calgary
Nous comprenons mieux les mécanismes moléculaires déclenchant l’apparition des symptômes des maladies inflammatoires des voies respiratoires, telles que l’asthme grâce aux recherches menées par David Proud. De plus, ses travaux sur les façons dont les virus respiratoires communs peuvent déclencher les crises d’asthme et causer d’autres maladies des voies respiratoires inférieures de même que sur les mécanismes de défenses du corps contre ces virus ont permis d’identifier de nouvelles approches de traitement en cas d’exacerbation des maladies des voies respiratoires inférieures.
Prof. René Provost
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2019
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René Provost’s pioneering work on the legal regulation of armed conflicts has challenged accepted thinking on the most effective strategy to protect the victims of war. Embracing a theoretical perspective rooted in legal pluralism and a methodology inspired by legal anthropology, he has explored how legal and cultural norms interact to identify new avenues to induce compliance with international humanitarian law by armed state and non-state actors.
PROVOST, René – Faculté de droit, Université McGill
La critique du droit des conflits armés avancée par René Provost a débouché sur une approche novatrice pour protéger les victimes de la guerre. Avec une perspective théorique ancrée dans le pluralisme juridique et une méthodologie inspirée de l’anthropologie juridique, il explore comment interagissent les normes juridiques et culturelles pour identifier des stratégies visant à améliorer le respect du droit international humanitaire par les acteurs armés étatiques et non-étatiques.
Prof. Robert Prud'homme
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Keywords: Polymères, cristallisation, morphologie, copolymères, caractérisation spectroscopique
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Le Professeur Prud'homme est un physico-chimiste reconnu internationalement pour ses travaux sur 1'état solide des polymères. Il a fait des contributions fondamentales dans le domaine des mélanges polymères, des stéréocomplexes entre polyesters optiquement actifs, sur 1'orientation et la relaxation des polymères à 1'état fondu, sur leur morphologie et leur cristallisation, sur les méthodes de caractérisation impliquant une radiation (lumière, rayons X et infrarouge) et, récemment, sur la cristallisation des films polymères ultraminces (moins de 100 nm d'épaisseur) - nanostructures pour les nouvelles applications en nanotechnologie. Il a jusqu'ici dirigé 56 mémoires de M.Sc. et 26 thèses de doctorat. Ses travaux lui ont valu plusieurs prix, entre autres la bourse Steacie du CRSNG en 1985-87, le Prix Urgel-Archambault de 1'ACFAS en 1997 et, en 2001, le prix Marie-Victorin, la plus haute distinction accordée par le Gouvernement du Québec en sciences naturelles et en génie. Il a été conférencier plénier à de nombreux congrès internationaux et professeur invité de plusieurs universités étrangères. En plus de ses contributions en recherche, le Professeur Prud'homme a dirigé pendant 15 ans le Centre de recherche en sciences et ingénierie des macromolécules de 1'Université Laval et, depuis 2003, il dirige le département de chimie de 1'Université de Montréal.
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Le Professeur Prud’homme est un physico-chimiste reconnu internationalement pour ses travaux sur l’état solide des polymères. Ses travaux lui ont valu plusieurs prix. En plus de ses contributions en recherche, il a dirigé le Centre de recherche en sciences et ingénierie des macromolécules de l’Université Laval et, depuis 2003, il dirige le département de chimie de l’Université de Montréal.
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Keywords: computational modeling, plant development, plant growth, plant morphogenesis, pattern formation in plants, plant architecture, developmental regulation
Induction Year: 2014
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PRUSINKIEWICZ, Przemyslaw – Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz pioneered computational modeling in developmental plant biology. His
innovative programming languages and widely used software for simulating plant development stimulated
acceptance of computational modeling as an illuminating research tool in plant biology. His models,
derived in collaboration with biologists, provide mechanistic explanations of fundamental processes in plant
development and the resulting diversity of plant form.
PRUSINKIEWICZ, Przemyslaw – Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary
Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz a été un pionnier de la modélisation informatique en biologie végétale du
développement. Ses logiciels innovants, largement utilisés pour simuler le développement des plantes, ont
encouragé la reconnaissance de la modélisation informatique comme un outil de recherche essentiel en
biologie végétale. Ses modèles, issus de ses collaborations avec des biologistes, fournissent des explications mécanistes
des processus fondamentaux du développement des plantes et de la diversité des formes végétales.
Mr. Maurice Ptito
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Keywords: Plasticite cérébrale, substitution sensorielle, résonance magnétique fonctionnelle (fMRI), Cecite
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Maurice Ptito, du département de psychologie de l'Université de Montréal, s'est illustré par ses contributions remarquables tant au niveau du développement de la neuropsychologie au Québec qu'à l'avancement des connaissances dans ce domaine.
Ptito jouit d'une reconnaissance internationale grâce à ses travaux sur les interrelations entre le cerveau et le comportement. Il a contribué, par ses recherches, à la compréhension des rôles de la grande commissure cérébrale, le corps calleux, en utilisant une approche multidisciplinaire impliquant des méthodes d'investigation propres aux sciences biologiques. Son livre (co-édité avec MM. Lepore et Jasper) sur les fonctions calleuses est déjà devenu un classique dans le domaine.
Richard Puddephatt
Affiliation: Western University
Keywords: Chemistry, organometallic, inorganic, catalysis, materials
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In the last 15 years, Dr. Puddephatt has made a remarkable number of important contributions in the area of organometallic chemistry of the platinum group and coinage metals. Most of his work has been concerned with a detailed understanding of the role of transition metal compounds in catalytic reactions. For example, he has made key studies of the reactivity of metal alkyls and hydrides. His recent binuclear and cluster Pt and Pd compounds have been found to be the best mimics of platinum surface catalysis yet discovered. Very novel bimetallic clusters have been prepared and these are important model systems for bimetallic catalysts. He has published over 220 papers in the primary literature as well as numerous reviews and two books.
Trevor Pugh
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: clinical cancer genomics, computational biology, bioinformatics, molecular genetics
Induction Year: 2024
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Trevor Pugh is a world-leading cancer researcher and clinical
molecular geneticist at the forefront of precision medicine. As
holder of the Canada Research Chair in Translational Genomics,
he uses genome sequencing to understand causes of cancer,
guide treatment of patients, and detect early disease using blood tests. Key
to this work are global collaborative networks that enable knowledge gained
from treating each patient to improve the treatment of everyone.
Trevor Pugh est un chercheur en cancérologie et un généticien
moléculaire clinique de renommée mondiale, à la pointe de la
médecine de précision. Titulaire de la chaire de recherche du
Canada en génomique translationnelle, il utilise le séquençage
du génome pour comprendre les causes du cancer, orienter le traitement des
patients et détecter les maladies précoces à l’aide de tests sanguins. La clé de
ce travail réside dans les réseaux mondiaux de collaboration qui permettent
aux connaissances individuelles acquises en traitant un patient d’améliorer le
traitement de tous.
Annie Pullen Sansfaçon
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
Induction Year: 2023
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Annie Pullen Sansfaçon (PhD Ethics, Social Work, De Montfort University, UK) is Professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Social Work and holds the Canada Research Chair on Transgender Children and their families. Her research is aimed at understanding the experiences of well-being of transgender children and youth and at facilitating changes towards a greater social acceptation.
Annie Pullen Sansfaçon (PhD Ethics, Social Work, De Montfort University, UK) est professeure à l’École de travail social de l’Université de Montréal et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les enfants transgenres et leurs familles. Ses recherches visent à comprendre les expériences de bien-être des enfants et des jeunes transgenres, et à faciliter le changement dans le but de rendre leurs environnements sociaux plus inclusifs.
Dr. Gary Purdy
Affiliation: McMaster University
Keywords: Phase transformations, diffusion, interfaces
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Purdy is an internationally recognized specialist in experimental and theoretical studies of phase transformations. His outstanding contributions include: - Advances in understanding ternary phase transformations; studies of intermetallic compounds culinating in development of a series of new ductile materials exceptionally resistant to time-dependent high-temperature deformation; the role of elastic energy in the stabilization of precipitate arrays; the study of interface migration in alloy steels. He is a co-discoverer of the phenomenon of Chemically Induced Grain Boundary Migration (CIGM) in solids. His work has initiated research in other laboratories and has led to important technological applications.
Eli Puterman
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Induction Year: 2023
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Dr. Eli Puterman, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is the Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity and Health since 2015. Dr. Puterman’s research program develops and implements physical activity and exercise programs in collaboration with and for hard-to-reach and high-stress individuals to determine how such programs can improve mental and physical wellbeing.
Eli Puterman est professeur agrégé au sein de l'École de kinésiologie de la University of British Columbia à Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique, au Canada. Il est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l'activité physique et la santé depuis 2015. Son programme de recherche élabore et met en œuvre des programmes d'activité physique et d'exercice en collaboration avec et pour des personnes difficiles à atteindre et très stressées afin de déterminer comment de tels programmes peuvent améliorer le bien-être mental et physique.
Dr. Ian Putnam
Affiliation: University of Victoria
Keywords: C*-algebra, Dynamical systems, K-theory
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Ian Fraser Putnam, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, has made outstanding contributions to the theory of dynamical systems. He has shown that the orbits of such systems can be completely determined by algebraic methods – methods which he was instrumental in the development of. Putnam's analysis of the structure of the C*-algebra associated with a minimal homeomorphism of the Cantor set led to an overarching scheme for the classification of all amenable C*-algebras – the so-called Elliott program. Putnam's application of the C*-algebra classification to determine the orbit structure of the Cantor set dynamical system, in terms of the quite simple C*-algebra invariant, was a striking innovation. It has changed the face of dynamical systems theory.
Dr. Lewis Pyenson
Affiliation: Western Michigan University
Keywords: History, science, art, modern
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Lewis Pyenson is one of the outstanding historians of science, especially physical science, on this continent. He has written important papers on the development of the history of science as an academic subject, an area in which he continues to work. His treatment of Einstein's early background and its influence on his later work has, along the way, revealed new insights into physical science and German higher education around the turn of the twentieth century. His incisive and archivally documented studies of Dutch, German and French science in the colonial world represent widely acclaimed contributions to an entirely new category in the field of science history, and reveal Pyenson as a pioneer in the area of science and imperialism.