Graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1940, Edward Wilfred Nuffield came to the University of Toronto for his Ph.D. and remained on the staff in Geological Sciences. As a teacher of mineralogy and crystallography he has instilled in his students ideals of careful and precise work, quantitative thinking, and scientific honesty as exemplified in his many research papers. He is a fellow and member of the Council of the Mineralogical Society of America and a member of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain; he played a leading role in organizing the Mineralogical Association of Canada, of which he was president from 1956 to 1958.

Dr. Ann Oaks is a scientist who has established an international reputation for her studies on nitrogen metabolism in plants. She has contributed much to our understanding of the mode of action of nitrate reductase in plants, and to the metabolism of amino acids in developing maize kernels. She has published extensively in journals of high repute, and also contributed important review chapters on several aspects of her research areas. She has been invited to present seminars or to teach at many universities in Canada and abroad, and her expertise is sought as a reviewer for leading journals in plant physiology. She is an accomplished and distinguished plant physiologist.

G.J. Odgers has been an astronomer at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory for thirty years. His early work was concerned with theory and observation of stellar variability and stellar atmospheres. Since 1962 he has been involved in the design and construction of large telescopes and had major responsibility for, first the proposed all-Canadian 4m telescope, and latterly the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope which successfully produced its first photographs this year, and is now undergoing final tests before regular commissioning next year (1980). This work has involved close collaboration with French and Hawaiian astronomers.

JOHN ORRELL, who received his degrees from Oxford and the University of Toronto, is now a Professor of English at the University of Alberta. His recent book, published by Cambridge University Press, "The Quest for Shakespeare's Globe", has ingeniously provided evidence of the actual dimensions of Shakespeare's theatre; and this and his other work on seventeenth-century theatres has resulted in his becoming a major authority in the large project to reconstruct the Globe and Cockpit theatres on Bankside in London. His work as a theatre historian has resulted in many important articles, as well as a book on "The Lost Theatres of Edmonton".

Dr. Sylvia Ostry has had an outstanding career as a public servant and has also made impressive contributions to scholarly research. She has held a number of major positions in the federal government, including Chief Statistician of Canada, two Deputy Ministerships, Ambassador for Multilateral Trade Negotiations and the Prime Minister's Personal Representative to the Economic Summit. She has also chaired the Economic Council of Canada and been head of the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Throughout this distinguished public career she has maintained close contacts with the scholarly community in Canada and abroad, writing or co-authoring eighteen books and monographs and over seventy articles. Her main research interests have been in labour economics where her work on topics such as the growth, composition and remuneration of the work force has received wide recognition. She has also published extensively in the area of international economic relations, notably on efforts to maintain stability in the world economy. Dr. Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, where she is conducting studies of the interactions between governments and corporations in Canada, the United States, Western Europe and Japan; the impact of globalization; and the evolution of the world trading system.