Nathan ISGUR has made important contributions to the understanding of hadrons - the family of particles from which the atomic nucleus and similar structures are built. His work on baryons has become the standard reference for the spectroscopy and decays of these particles. This work has been generalized to explain the forces between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus. In the same general direction ISGUR and his coworkers have generalized the quark model to include the motion of strings, and have found the limitation of perturbative methods in describing quarks and gluons.

Professeur de littérature française à The University of Western Ontario depuis 1972, Michael Issacharoff est un des théoriciens de littérature et de théâtre les plus remarquables au Canada. Ses travaux, qui ont été publiés dans plusieurs pays, jouissent d'une reconnaissance internationale et font autorité dans les domaines de la sémiologie du théâtre, de la spatialité du discours littéraire et de la référentialité dans la littérature. Auteur de sept livres et de très nombreux articles, directeur de quatre collectifs, ayant enseigné dans des universités prestigieuses, Michael Issacharoff est membre de la Royal Society of Arts à Londres. L'excellence, la portée et la reconnaissance de ses travaux ne font aucun doute.

Douglas N. Jackson, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, is one of the leading authorities in the world in the field of Personality Assessment. In addition to his books, chapters in books, and the tests he has developed, he has published 150 articles in refereed academic journals. He is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and The Canadian Psychological Association, and is president elect of the Division of Measurement Evaluation and Statistics, American Psychological Association. His work on test development and test construction is outstanding and the tests he has developed have the best psychometric properties. His research is of both theoretical and practical importance.

Michael James is the first and preeminent protein crystallographer in Canada. He established a school in the discipline which has, so far, provided professors for three other Canadian universities. He was the first to determine the atomic resolution structure of a bacterial protease, and his establishment of several of these permitted detailed comparisons with their mammalian counterparts, leading to profound deductions about their evolutionary relationships and reaction mechanisms. Several of the structure determinations (a-lytic protease, penicillopepsin and tonin) involved collaborations with scientists at other Canadian universities, attesting to his leadership role in national science. He has pushed the structures of the proteases under consideration to exceptionally high resolution (15Å or atomic level) and combined this with binding studies of appropriate substrate analogues, leading to new and bold proposals for the chemical mechanisms of the reactions catalysed by these enzymes. His coherent body of work, summarized in 80 original publications, has brought him wide international recognition, favourable comments in "Nature", and several prestigious awards.