Dr. C. C. Gotlieb is a recognized leader in the field of computer science. He has been largely responsible for the development of the foremost computing centre in Canada, which in turn has sparked the development of computing across the country. He has initiated research in many areas of computing and has led the way in extending the computational approach to various branches of science, engineering and even the humanities. As author, lecturer, editor, and organizer of computing conferences both in Canada and internationally, he has assisted in establishing computation as an important interdisciplinary science. He is at present Editor-in-Chief of one of the two most important computing journals in America.

Denis lan Gough is an imaginative observational geophysicist. An inventive instrumentalist, he has contributed in fields ranging from local foundation studies in civil engineering to continent-scale studies in geodesy. His magnetometer array studies have done much to elucidate tectonic processes under continents, in particular western North America. Studies by D. I. and W. I. Gough of loading of the crust and the associated earthquakes near the Kariba Dam constitute a major contribution to understanding of the triggering of earthquakes near large reservoirs. A later study of the Bennett Dam in British Columbia showed that the area is tectonically as well as politically stable. With J. S. Bell, Gough explained the NW-SE orientation of breakouts in Alberta well-bores as due to NE-SW crustal compression. This work has contributed to knowledge of crustal stress orientations in several continents, and so of mantle flows driving the tectonic plates.

Victor E(rnest) Graham, B.A., University of Alberta, Rhodes Scholar, B.A. Oxford University, Ph.D. Columbia Univeristy. Able teacher of French: University of Alberta, University of Michigan, University of Toronto (University College), Professor since 1960. Senior Fellow, Canada Council. Active in musical life and French culture of the community; recognized leader in organization, direction and planning of academic affairs, both undergraduate and graduate; distinguished Renaissance scholar, internationally known for his 7-volume critical edition of the works of Philippe Desportes; productive as well in the field of modern French language and literature, in which he is about to publish an important study: "The Imagery of Proust".

Graham, as well as being a major force in the moulding in inorganic /organometallic chemistry within this Country over the last 20 years, has an outstanding international reputation in this area and he has been also a foremost ambassador worldwide for the Canadian Chemistry scene. His recent discoveries on activation of carbon-hydrogen bonds in saturated hydrocarbons, including methane, a long recognized problem in homogeneous catalysis, by the use of platinum metal complexes are truly remarkable and pioneering studies that will be strongly influential in the future development of this extremely exciting topic.