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Prof. Paul Weiler
Affiliation: Harvard University
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Paul C. Weiler has made an outstanding contribution to a number of fields of law, in particular, labour law, constitutional law and torts. A Canadian, now at the Harvard Law School, his major books include: "In the Last Resort: A Critical Study of the Supreme Court of Canada" in 1974; "Reconcilable Differences: New Directions in Canadian Labour Law" in 1980; and "The Law at Work: Labour and Employment in the Legal System" in 1990. His career as a teacher, scholar, and policy advisor to governments has been one of great influence and distinction.
Anna Weinberg
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2021
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Anna Weinberg is a clinical psychologist at McGill University, and the Canada Research Chair in Clinical Neuroscience. She investigates patterns of neural response that make people vulnerable to the development of depression and anxiety—two of the most common forms of illness in the world. Her work examines both how variation in these neural responses emerges (e.g., through genetic influence, or stressful experiences), and how these responses predict mental health across the lifespan.
Anna Weinberg est psychologue clinicienne à l'Université McGill et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en neurosciences cliniques. Elle étudie les modèles de réponse neuronale qui rendent les gens vulnérables au développement de la dépression et de l'anxiété, deux des formes de maladie les plus courantes dans le monde. Ses travaux portent à la fois sur l’apparition de la variation de ces réponses neuronales (par exemple, en raison d'une influence génétique ou d'expériences stressantes) et sur la manière dont ces réponses permettent de prédire la santé mentale tout au long de la vie.
Dr. Joel Weiner
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: antibiotics resistance, membrane proteins, bioenergetics
Induction Year: 2011
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Dr. Ernest Weinrib
Affiliation: University of Toronto
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Ernest Weinrib, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, has made a significant contribution to jurisprudence and theory of tort law. His work explores the connection between moral theory and the foundations of private law. He has developed a coherent theory of rationality of private law, drawing in particular upon the moral philosophy of Aristotle and Kant. His work challenges other contemporary theories which dispute law's internal integrity and he is widely regarded as one of the leading scholars in the common law world of the theory of tort law. Professor Weinrib has also made significant contributions to literature on various aspects of tort law doctrine, the law of fiduciary duties, and to classical studies.
Prof. Daniel Weinstock
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Diversity; Democracy; Liberalism; Health; Public Policy
Induction Year: 2024
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Daniel Weinstock holds the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy at McGill University, where he holds appointments in the Facultyof Law, the Department of Philosophy, the Max Bell School of Public Policy, and the School of Population and Global Health. He has published widely in a broad range of topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy. In 2023, he was inducted into the Order of Canada.
Daniel Weinstock est titulaire de la chaire Katharine A. Pearson sur la société civile et les politiques publiques à l’Université McGill, où il occupe des fonctions à la faculté de droit, au département de philosophie, à l’École de politiques publiques Max Bell et à la School of Population and Global Health. Il a publié de nombreux ouvrages sur un large éventail de sujets liés à la philosophie morale, politique et juridique. En 2023,
il a été intronisé au sein de l’Ordre du Canada.
Karen Weisman
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Romanticism; Jewish Studies
Induction Year: 2020
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Karen Weisman is a renowned scholar of both English Romanticism and Jewish culture. She is a leading thinker on form and genre and an acclaimed authority on the relationship between Romanticism and such excluded minorities as Jews in nineteenth-century England. Her recent work on Anglo-Jewish poetry’s engagement with canonical cultural authority has circumscribed a new field in the study of English literature.
Karen Weisman est une spécialiste renommée du romantisme anglais et de la culture juive. Théoricienne de premier plan sur la forme et le genre, elle est une sommité des relations entre le Romantisme et des minorités exclues telles que les Juifs dans l’Angleterre du dix-neuvième siècle. Ses récents travaux sur les débats engagés par la poésie anglo-juive avec une autorité culturelle canonique ont délimité un nouveau champ de recherche dans l’étude de la littérature anglaise.
Dr. Samuel Weiss
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Induction Year: 2009
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Dr. Samuel Weiss has made very important contributions to our understanding of the potential for brain repair. Dr. Weiss has conducted groundbreaking research in the area of neural stem cell biology and has established himself as an international leader in the field.
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WEISS, Samuel –Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary
Dr. Samuel Weiss has made very important contributions to our understanding of the potential for brain repair. In 1992, Dr. Weiss made the original discovery that neural stem cells are present in the brains of embryonic and adult mice. Neural stem cells are now being extensively studied as a tool for treating a variety of diseases characterized by damage to the brain, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and stroke. Since his original discovery, Dr. Weiss has conducted groundbreaking research in the area of neural stem cell biology and has established himself as an international leader in the field.
Alfred Weiss
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Representations, units, Galois, cohomology, L-functions
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Alfred Weiss, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alberta, is a mathematician who has made fundamental contributions to several aspects of algebraic number theory and the representation theory of groups and orders. The elegant and ingenious work of Weiss and his collaborators is ubiquitous in the study of integral group-rings and the Galois module structure of units of number fields. Renowned for the originality of his ideas, Weiss proved the long- standing Zassenhaus Conjecture concerning units in group-rings by a method which has rapidly become a ‘classic' and Weiss's solution of Frohlich's conjecture on canonical lattices of Galois representations is clearly destined to follow suit.
George Weisz
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2021
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George Weisz is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of comparative medical history. His work has analyzed major developments in the history of modern and contemporary healthcare. These include medical specialization, chronic disease, quantification, medical professions and medical training, holism and reductionism in medical science, and variation and standardization in healthcare. He currently works on the history of global health.
George Weisz est un chercheur renommé dans le domaine de l’histoire médicale comparée. Il a analysé les développements majeurs de l’histoire de la médecine moderne et contemporaine, notamment la spécialisation médicale, les maladies chroniques, la quantification, les professions médicales et la formation médicale, l’holisme et le réductionnisme en science médicale, ainsi que la variation et la standardisation des pratiques. Il travaille actuellement sur l’histoire de la santé mondiale.
Jeffrey Weitz
Affiliation: McMaster University
Keywords: Thrombosis, Venous thromboembolism, Deep vein thrombosis, Pulmonary embolism, Anticoagulants, Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants, Low-molecular-weight heparin, Fibrinolysis, Histidine-rich glycoprotein, Idarucizumab, Apixaban
Induction Year: 2016
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WEITZ, Jeffrey – Department of Medicine, McMaster University
Jeffrey Weitz is an internationally renowned clinician-scientist and pioneer in thrombosis research and care. His trailblazing studies provided the fundamental basis for new anticoagulants that have revolutionized stroke prevention and improved treatments for thrombosis, a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. A pillar in his field, he has achieved extraordinary success as a highly cited researcher, exemplary scholar and leader in medical research.
Jeffrey Weitz est un clinicien-chercheur de renommée internationale et un pionnier de la recherche et du traitement de la thrombose veineuse et artérielle. Ses travaux de recherches ont révolutionné la compréhension de la thrombose et ont mené à la découverte de traitements innovateurs qui ont établi de nouveaux standards pour la prévention des accidents vasculaires cérébraux et le traitement de la thrombose, deux causes majeures de morbidité et mortalité. Une sommité médicale, Docteur Weitz est un des chercheurs les plus cités mondialement, un pédagogue d’exception, et un meneur d’opinion dans la communauté scientifique.
Awet Weldemichael
Affiliation: Queen's University
Induction Year: 2020
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Awet Weldemichael is a scholar of Northeast Africa and island Southeast Asia with a focus on contemporary history and political economy. He is a former refugee goatherd turned professor and award-winning author of several books. Ranging from 20th century colonialism to 21st century maritime piracy, his multidisciplinary scholarship challenges conventional wisdom by amplifying the voices of the unheard, the weak, and the unrepresented.
Awet Weldemichael est un spécialiste de l’Afrique du Nord-Est et de l’Asie du Sud-Est insulaire, qui s’intéresse à l’histoire contemporaine et à l’économie politique. Il est un ancien chevrier réfugié devenu professeur et auteur primé de nombreux livres. Allant du colonialisme du 20e siècle à la piraterie maritime du 21e siècle, son travail multidisciplinaire remet en question les idées reçues en portant la voix des personnes non entendues, faibles et non-représentées.
Laurel Weldon
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Induction Year: 2020
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S. Laurel Weldon, Distinguished Full Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, is internationally acclaimed for her work on gender politics and policy, with expertise in cross-national analyses of women’s rights, social movements and violence against women. She has acted as a consultant for the United Nations and the World Bank. Her books and articles have won many awards and she served as Vice Provost at Purdue University (USA).
S. Laurel Weldon, professeure titulaire de sciences politiques au sein de la Simon Fraser University, est reconnue sur le plan international pour ses travaux sur les politiques et les politiques de genre, avec une expertise dans les analyses transnationales des droits des femmes, des mouvements sociaux et de la violence contre les femmes. Elle a été consultante pour les Nations Unies et la Banque mondiale. Ses livres et articles ont remporté de nombreux prix et elle a été Vicerectrice de la Purdue University (États-Unis).
Jennifer Welsh
Affiliation: McGill University
Induction Year: 2022
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Jennifer Welsh holds the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University. She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Her research focuses on humanitarian intervention, the evolution of the notion of the ‘responsibility to protect’ in international society, the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy.
Jennifer Welsh est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche Canada 150 en gouvernance et sécurité mondiales à l'Université McGill. Elle était auparavant professeure et présidente des relations internationales à l'Institut universitaire européen et professeure en relations internationales à l'Université d'Oxford, où elle a cofondé l'Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. Ses recherches portent sur l'intervention humanitaire, l'évolution de la notion de « responsabilité de protéger » dans la société internationale, le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU et la politique étrangère canadienne.
Dr. Janet Werker
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: Infancy, speech processing, language acquisition, development, brain and language
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Janet Werker is internationally acclaimed for her pioneering work on the precursors to language acquisition. She discovered that young infants discriminate sounds from across the world's languages, but by ten to twelve months of age can discriminate easily only sounds that are used to contrast meaning in their own language. More recently, her work has revealed that only after infants become accomplished word learners can they utilize the language-specific categories established in infancy. These discoveries have radically changed the field by highlighting the dynamic, epigenetic relation between perception and language.
Prof. Paul Werstine
Affiliation: King’s University College at Western University
Keywords: Shakespeare, editing, dramatic manuscripts, variorum
Induction Year: 2010
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Werstine, Paul - English Literature - University of Western Ontario
Paul Werstine has edited Shakespeare’s plays and poems with Barbara A. Mowat for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. He also serves, with Richard Knowles of the University of Wisconsin, as general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare edition, the most comprehensive of Shakespeare editions.
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Werstine, Paul - English Literature - King's University College at the University of Western Ontario Paul Werstine has been credited with transforming the field of Shakespeare editing and textual criticism. He has edited Shakespeare with Barbara A. Mowat for the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (1992-2010), the edition published in forty-two books by Simon and Schuster and aimed at a general audience. He has also served since 1996, with Richard Knowles of the University of Wisconsin, as the general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare edition, published by the Modern Language Association of America. The most comprehensive of Shakespeare editions, the Variorum contains reference to all significant writing about and performance of the works.
Dana Wessell Lightfoot
Affiliation: University of Northern British Columbia
Keywords: Gender; Law; Socio-Economic Status; Religion; Iberia; Medieval Spain; Women
Induction Year: 2014
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Focusing on lower status, Jewish and converted Jewish women, Wessell Lightfoot’s scholarship enlightens our understanding of women, property, marriage, family alliances and religion in late medieval Spain. Examining legal theory and practice and gender in late medieval Spain, she has reshaped our understanding of the relationship between formal and executed law, the connection between law and social practice, and the complex links between gender, law, socio-economic status and religion.
Axés sur les femmes en situation difficile, les femmes juives et les femmes juives converties, les travaux de Wessell Lightfoot éclairent notre compréhension des femmes, de la propriété, du mariage, des alliances familiales et de la religion dans l’Espagne du Moyen-âge tardif. Ses analyses de la pratique et la théorie juridiques et du genre dans l’Espagne du Moyen-âge tardif, elle a transformé notre vision de la relation entre le droit formel et exécutif et entre le droit et la pratique sociale, ainsi que les liens complexes entre le genre, le droit, le statut socioéconomique et la religion.
Dr. Lori West
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Induction Year: 2017
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WEST, Lori - Department of Pediatrics, Department of Surgery, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta
Dr. Lori West, clinician scientist at the University of Alberta, has focused her career on finding treatments for infants with lethal cardiac malformations. Through rigorous scientific and clinical investigations, Dr. West discovered that blood group mismatched heart transplants could be carried out safely during infancy, which saves hundreds of newborn babies worldwide each year and has profoundly transformed our understanding of the human immune system.
Dr. Gordon West
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Geophysics, crustal studies, electromagnetic methods, seismology, mining geophysics
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Gordon West is a giant among the world's exploration geophysicists, a pioneering explorer of the Precambrian crust, and winner of the Maurice Ewing Medal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. His co-invention of the phenomenally successful UTEM system for mineral exploration is but one example of his creativity. Major mineral discoveries in different countries have been credited to UTEM. Novel papers in surface and borehole seismology, gravity and magnetics have flowed from West. He has supervised over 65 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students and his classic text, Interpretation Theory in Applied Geophysics (co-authored with F.S. Grant), is used world-wide.
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Gordon West is a giant among the world's exploration geophysicists and a pioneering explorer of the Precambrian crust. He is the author of numerous novel papers in surface and borehole seismology, gravity and magnetics. His co-invention of the phenomenally successful UTEM system for mineral exploration is but one example of his creativity.
Dr. John Whalley
Affiliation: Western University
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John Whalley of the University of Western Ontario has a worldwide reputation as a leading exponent of quantitative general equilibrium theory, a body of analysis which is currently revolutionizing economists' approaches to problems of tax, trade, and development policy. Whalley has been at the forefront both in creating this body of techniques and in applying them to the policy problems of advanced countries such as Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, and to those of less developed countries too. His work is as notable for its sensitiviey to political and institutional realities as it is for its exceptional technical quality. He has thus made fundamental contributions to one of the most important bodies of applied economic analysis to appear since World War II.
Prof. Howard Wheater
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Keywords: Hydrological Engineering, Hydrological Modeling, Climate Change
Induction Year: 2018
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WHEATER, Howard - College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan
Howard Wheater is one of the world’s leading hydrologists. His many contributions to the field of hydrology represent significant breakthroughs that have become fundamental to the practice of hydrology today. A Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan, Professor Wheater is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK and the American Geophysical Union. In 2006, he won the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water.
Dr. John Wheeler
Affiliation: Natural Resources Canada
Keywords: Geological maps: Canada, North America, World
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Dr. J. 0. Wheeler is probably Canada's foremost authority on the regional structural geology of the Canadian Cordillera. At present, as head of the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Survey of Canada, he is responsible for the scientific direction and co-ordination of all the work undertaken in the area by the Geological Survey. His personal research at present is concerned primarily with the unravelling of the depositional and orogenic evolution of the southern Cordillera. He is also co-ordinator of the structural research project in the southern Cordillera sponsored by the National Advisory Committee on Geological Sciences. Wheeler has recently completed a synthesis of the geology of the southern Cordillera, a synthesis that is immeasurably superior to any published up to the present.
Prof. Aaron Wheeler
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Induction Year: 2015
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Aaron Wheeler is a chemist who works in the area of microfluidics – the study and applications of fluid flow in micrometer length dimensions (10-6 meters; smaller than the diameter of a human hair). Wheeler’s recent work includes the development of microfluidic schemes for combinatorial peptide synthesis, a new paradigm for mammalian cell culture and analysis, and a potentially transformative approach to quantifying molecular markers for cancer in tiny tissue samples.
Aaron Wheeler est un chimiste qui travaille dans le domaine des microfluidiques, domaine qui étudie l’écoulement des fluides micrométriques (10-6 mètre, plus petit que le diamètre d’un cheveu humain) et ses applications. Parmi les travaux les plus récents de Wheeler, notons le développement de schémas microfluidiques, la découverte d’un nouveau paradigme pour l’analyse et la culture des cellules de mammifères et l’élaboration d’une approche potentiellement transformatrice pour quantifier les marqueurs moléculaires du cancer dans des petits échantillons de tissu.
Anne Wheeler
Affiliation: None
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Anne Wheeler began her career as a filmmaker in Edmonton in the 1970s and has gone on to establish herself as one of Canada's leading filmmakers in the fields of feature film, documentary film, and television drama. She has adapted stories by major Canadian writers, created three important films dealing with Canada and WWII. She has won numerous professional awards and distinctions, holds six honorary doctorates, and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Douglas Whelpdale
Affiliation: Environment Canada
Keywords: Climate change, environmental assessment
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DOUGLAS M. WHELPDALE, Senior Scientist, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, is an international authority on atmospheric chemistry. His fundamental work on transport and deposition of atmospheric sulphur and nitrogen has played a major role in the development of Canadian and European acid rain research programs. His recent work has focussed on large-scale cycling and budgets of atmospheric chemicals, leading to design and implementation of global atmospheric monitoring. Dr. Whelpdale chairs the influential Expert Panel on Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Pollution of the World Meteorological Organization. In 1987 he was awarded the Patterson Medal for his contributions to Canadian meteorology.