The studies of Dr. Matheson have spanned a period of 25 years. During this time, he has published approximately 60 full papers on subjects related to the structure and function of proteins. His major contributions have been in establishing the existence of a peptidase associated with ribosome particles and in determining the structural amino sequences of several ribosomal proteins from eucaryotic, eubacteria and archebacteria. These latter studies have provided support for the recently established finding that there exists a third kingdom of microorganisms termed archebacteria. His laboratory is well known for its work with halophilic bacteria which have been the experimental system used in much of his work. He has also contributed to the literature on the structure of 5S ribosomal RNA and to the question of evolutionary relatedness of species.

Spécialiste en droit international aérospatial, Me Nicolas Mateesco Matte est auteur de neuf livres et de nombreux articles dans ce domaine. Il a été le premier en Amérique à enseigner en français ce domaine particulier du droit à l'Université de Montréal en 1951. Président du Conseil permanent du Club des relations internationales à l'Université de Montréal (dès 1951), il fonda les « Annales de droit aérien et spatial ». Il a été l'organisateur et le président du congrès de l'International Law Association à Montréal en 1982 et il est, depuis, vice-président à vie de cette organisation. Il a été directeur de l'Institut et du Centre de droit aérien et spatial de l'Université McGill (1976-1989) et il y est actuellement directeur émérite. Il publiait en 1982, en anglais et en français, à Scarborough et à Paris, son ouvrage : « Droit aérospatial : les télécommunications par satellites; Aerospace Law. Telecommunications Satellites ». Il est actuellement vice-président de l'International Space University et avocat-conseil du bureau d'avocats Brouillette Charpentier Fortin de Montréal.

Born in the U.S., resident in Canada since 1957, Armand Maurer, C.S.B., received his licentiate in medieval studies in 1945 and his doctorate in philosophy in 1947. In a busy academic life, with direction of unusually numerous doctoral theses, he has edited and published a number of manuscript texts of medieval thinkers, along with critical studies, translations, and commentaries. His histories of medieval and of modern Anglo-American philosophy likewise continue this priceless tradition of scholarship in which past wisdom is recovered, preserved, clarified for the present age, and brought to bear upon our understanding of our own contemporary thought.

Medievalist and Renaissance-Reformation scholar, Dr. James Kelsey McConica is an authority in the general field of European intellectual history. His principal works are concerned with two subjects: the institutional forms of learning in medieval and 16th century Europe, and the religious, political, and social contexts of humanist scholarship and thought. The first has recently culminated in Volume III of "The History of the University of Oxford: The Collegiate University" (1986) which everywhere reflects his magisterial shaping hand. The second is displayed in his important studies of European humanists and Tudor politics and, since 1974, his work on the prince of European humanists, Desiderius Erasmus, signally exemplified in Dr. McConica's leadership in planning and executing "The Collected Works of Erasmus", called (by a sober critic), 'one of the most massive and important enterprises of our time.'