Martin Wesley Johns, B.A., M.A. (McM.), Ph.D. (Tor.), is Professor of Physics at Hamilton College, McMaster University. He is known for his important contributions in the field of B- and y-ray spectroscopy. He and his students have built the first Siegbahn-type double-focusing B-ray spectrometers. With this instrument he has been able to establish the decay schemes for a number of radio-active nuclei. Dr. Johns has also been an active member of a medical research team interested in the detection and treatment of thyroid disorders.

Dr. Johnstone did pioneering work in the isolation of plasma membranes from nucleated cells and her studies showed that isolated membranes had all the known properties for solute transport. A membrane potential difference was a major energy source for Na+ dependent transport. Her next important contribution was the introduction of fluorescent dyes to follow membrane potential changes during amino acid transport. From these studies it was determined that transport of neutral amino acids coupled to Na is electrogenic during influx as well as efflux. The direction of net flux of an amino acid could be a major determinant of the measured membrane potential. More recently Dr. Johnstone has been studying the loss of the transferrin receptor during reticulocyte maturation and demonstrated that this process involves the removal of plasma membrane proteins including the transferrin receptors and their release in a retrievable vesicle, the exosome.

Jones, Barbara E. - Medical Sciences - McGill University Barbara Jones is known worldwide for her life’s work elucidating the basic mechanisms of sleep-wake states. She has delineated by their chemical neurotransmitters, neuroanatomical projections and discharge properties the major neural systems that generate the three distinct states of waking, slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. ------------------ Jones, Barbara E. - Medical Sciences - McGill University Barbara Jones is known worldwide for her life’s work elucidating the basic mechanisms of sleep-wake states. By combining histochemistry, neuroanatomy and electrophysiology, she has delineated by their chemical neurotransmitters, neuroanatomical projections and discharge properties the major neural systems that generate the three distinct states of waking, slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. By in vivo recording of histochemically identified neurons, she has recently revealed the way in which discrete neural systems act and interact to regulate cortical activity and behavior across sleep-wake states and why their selective loss results in disorders such as insomnia, narcolepsy or coma.

Douglas Jones is a distinguished Canadian poet and one of the best living critics of Canadian literature. As a founding editor of "Ellipse" and a translator of Quebec poetry he has considered it his responsibility to make the literature of both official languages in Canada more accessible to readers of the other tongue. His four books of poetry are marked by lucidity, beautiful craftmanship, and penetrating vision. His far-ranging critical study of Canadian literature, "Butterfly on Rock", exhibits deep scholarship as well as originality and insight. It has had wide influence on how we regard our own literature.

Dr. Jones is a leading international authority on cardiovascular dynamics in lower vertebrates and on the control of breathing during diving in all vertebrate groups. His early studies changed concepts of blood distribution in the anuran ventricle and established a role for the conus arteriosus. He pioneered the application of wave transmission theory to avian and amphibian cardiovascular systems. He provided the first demonstration of baroreceptors in non-mammalian vertebrates and is a world authority on intravascular receptors in lower vertebrates. He has published over 80 scientific papers and organized several international symposia.

Claude Julien est un des plus éminents journalistes français de sa génération. Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, sa carrière de journaliste et de grand reporter s'est principalement faite au journal « Le Monde », dont il a été élu directeur en 1981. Pendant de nombreuses années, il a dirigé le mensuel « Le Monde Diplomatique » qui a connu sous sa direction une expansion et un rayonnement extraordinaires et dont le tirage, qui était à son arrivée de 70 000 exemplaires, dépasse maintenant les 250 000. Tout au long de sa carrière, M. Julien a manifesté un intérêt constant et entretenu des liens étroits avec le Québec et le Canada. Alors qu'il était chargé du secteur États-Unis / Canada au quotidien « Le Monde », il a publié de nombreux reportages sur le Canada, et notamment des entretiens avec le premier ministre Lester B. Pearson. Auteur de plusieurs livres importants qui lui ont valu des prix renommés, il a publié en 1962, chez Grasset, « Le Canada, dernière chance de l'Europe ». En 1990, il a été nommé membre du Conseil d'Administration de l'Institut canadien pour la paix et la sécurité internationales, et de 1990 à 1994, il a présidé le Festival international de théâtre des francophonies.