George Needler is an internationally recognized physical oceanographer who has made important fundamental contributions to the theory of ocean circulation. As director of the Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratory of Bedford Institute, he has also guided the research of Canada's largest group of physical oceanographers. He has been a vital member of an international committee concerned with the multidisciplinary problems of ocean pollution and has chaired a key working group, sponsored by various U.N. agencies, that has provided new scientific discussion and innovative mathematical models now being used for the regulation of the oceanic dumping of nuclear waste.

Dr. Newcombe, B.Sc. (Acadia) and Ph.D. (McGill) has been on the staff of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited for Thirty-two years. His extensive publications demonstrate his broad interests in biology, especially in genetics and radiation genetics. In this last subject, he is the foremost investigator in Canada and is considered a world authority. His researches made significant additions to our knowledge of mutations in bacteria and viruses. For the past five years he has been pioneering in a study of human genetics by extracting information from vital statistics with modern data handling machines. Dr. Newcombe's advice on problems of genetics and radiobiology has been so widely sought that he is a member of several expert committees of Canada, the United States and international organizations.

Jay Newman's research and writing focus primarily on philosophical issues related to religious tolerance and pluralism. Jay Newman's books on religious tolerance and pluralism have made Jay Newman one of the world's principal authorities on the subject. In "Foundations of Religious Tolerance", Jay Newman analyzes the nature of religious tolerance and strategies for promoting religious tolerance. "Fanatics and Hypocrites" considers the perversions of commitment in their relation to sound, constructive religious commitment. "Competition in Religious Life" combines philosophical analysis with theological and historical studies to shed light on methods of dealing with enduring social problems of destructive conflict. "On Religious Freedom" provides sophisticated philosophical analyses of religious liberty and religious liberalism. "Religion vs. Television" and "Religion and Technology" deal with social problems arising from religion's relation fo other cultural forms. Jay Newman also has explored ethical and cultural issues related to mass communications and public opinion formation in such books as "The Journal in Plato's Cave" and "Inauthentic Culture and Its Philosophical Critics".

During a long career, with segments at Imperial College London, the University of Western Ontario, and York University, the principal thrust of Dr. Nicholls' researches, and those of his many students and collaborators has been the diagnostic interpretation of intensity profiles of emission and absorption molecular spectra, from laboratory, atmospheric, space and astrophysical sources in terms of the physical conditions which exist in them and the energy transfer processes which maintain them. The experimental/observational aspects of this work has involved the study of laboratory spectra excited in shock tubes, ion beams and combustion sources as well as with the participation in Canadian and International rocket and satellite projects. The theoretical aspects of the work has involved extensive quantal studies of many properties of space molecules to provide definitive molecular transition probability data needed for diagnostic purposes.

Kai Nielsen has been and continues to be a prodigiously prolific contributor to contemporary philosophy, chiefly on ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of religion; and maintains an international reputation for proficiency and resourcefulness. His recent book (preceded by a number of others) "Equality and Liberty" (1984) has attracted especially wide attention as an uncommonly substantial defence of egalitarianism.