With nearly 100 research papers to his credit, John Kirkaldy's reputation as a physical metallurgist has been recognized nationally and internationally by numerous awards. As a professional engineer, he maintains active liason with industry in a consultative capacity. He also has taken a leadership role in educational matters as Chairman of the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at McMaster University, as President of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Association, and as a member of the Commission on Post-Secondary Education in Ontario. In Summary, Kirkaldy has made outstanding contributions in teaching, research, university administration and in public affairs.

Long Citation Dr. Kisilevsky's basic studies on abnormal protein folding (amyloid) have led to therapy for some of the important diseases of our time. He has designed agents and drugs to arrest and reverse this process, which are approved for the treatment of amyloidosis, and are in a FDA expedited Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Similar blocking agents are used to treat malaria. Finally, the physiological function of one of these amyloid proteins in cholesterol transport have led to mechanisms to treat atherosclerosis which leads to stroke and heart attacks. Two highly successful biotechnology companies have been founded on his research. Short Citation Dr. Kisilevsky's basic studies on abnormal protein folding have led to important therapies for some of the important diseases of our time. He has designed agents and drugs, which are approved for the treatment of amyloidosis, and are in a FDA expedited Phase III clinical trials for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Similar blocking agents are used to treat malaria and similar protein interactions in cholesterol transport have led to treatments for atherosclerosis.

Professor Raymond Klibansky's list of scholarly publications in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, the United States, written in five different languages including Latin, attest to his immense erudition. The numerous honorific posts he has held indicate that he is one of the most respected scholars internationally ever to be a Canadian citizen or a servant of a Canadian university. These speak so eloquently for themselves that further comment upon Professor Klibansky's qualifications for election to the Royal Society would be superfluous. He has also been unsparing of his time with students at McGill.

Roger Knowles has an international reputation for his outstanding studies of physiological and ecological aspects of nitrogen transformations in terrestrial and aquatic systems. He has critically examined the methods used to study these transformations and his contribution of pure culture, laboratory model system and 'in situ' investigations has led to significant advances. For example, his examination of the acetylene reduction method for measuring nitrogen fixation led to the discovery of a new sensitive and cheap method for the assay of denitrification. Roger Knowles was the recipient of the CSM Award for 1982 from the Canadian Society of Mlcrobiologists for outstanding contributions to research in microbiology.

Gabriel Kolko has revised the way we think about power in America. One of the most prolific and influential historians of the United States, Professor Kolko has always taken on big questions, mastered prodigious quantitites of documentation, and delivered challenging, thought provoking books on important issues such as the distribution of wealth and power, economic regulation, the nature of progressivism, the origins of the Cold War, and patterns of political economy. Soon he will publish a massive history of the Vietnam War which will undoubtedly signal the beginnings of a major reinterpretation of that event. Seldom has a scholar had such a profound influence upon both scholarship and public opinion. Gabriel Kolko expemplifies the noblest ambitions of this Academy: he subverts unfounded conventional wisdom, strips away error and myth, subjects the powerful to relentless critical scrutiny, and challenges us all to rethink fundamental beliefs.

Understanding the proton transfer process, a ubiquitous chemical reaction of great importance, has been the goal of Dr. Kresge's professional career. This pursuit has taken him from an initial interest in slow proton transfer involving carbon, which produced comprehensive investigations of aromatic hydrogen exchange and vinyl ether hydrolysis, to the examination of very fast proton transfer between 'normal' acids and bases such as H+ and HO-. Along the way he has performed definitive modern studies of such classic reactions as ortho ester hydrolysis, nitroamide decomposition, and beto-enol tautomerism and he has emerged as a foremost authority on acid-base catalysis and a leading physical organic chemist.

Prolific novelist, poet and critical essayist, the contributions of Robert Kroetsch, Distinguished Professor in the University of Manitoba, to literature and ideas have been recognized by several awards and by many invitations to lecture and participate in symposia. Novels and poems are original in form and content and meditate on many aspects of life - prairie regionalism, fiction versus reality, the temper of North America, the poet and his mortality. His critical studies have brought Canadian literature and ideas to new audiences in North America and Europe. In all three genres, as well as in the 'interview' which he has made peculiarly his own, Kroetsch's writing and speaking is original in form and matter, penetrating and provoking.