Alain Connes is one of the world's leading mathematicians. His early work - a critical part of it carried out in this country - revolutionized the study of operator algebras. Not only did it solve the central problem in the subject, open since the work of Murray and von Neumann forty years earlier, but it carried the subject to a state of maturity which could not even have been imagined. In the last fifteen years, Dr. Connes has gone far towards revolutionizing the rest of mathematics as well - and, with it, physics. His non-commutative geometry - building on an operator algebra framework - may turn out to be this century's most profound mathematical discovery.

Leonard Conolly is one of the most eminent scholars of theatre history and drama in Canada. He was one of the pioneers in the study of Canadian theatre, and has a written an important study on censorship in drama. He was also responsible for establishing and developing the collection of theatre archives at the University of Guelph (the largest such resource in Canada and recently named in his honour), significantly promoting scholarly research on Canadian theatre history.

André-Pierre Contandriopoulos est un économiste de la santé dont les travaux de recherche et les analyses ont joué un rôle très important dans I'organisation et les transformations du système de santé au Canada et au Québec, et à la formation des gestionnaires de ce secteur. Il a interrogé les hypothèses sur lesquelles s'appuie la science économique, en les confrontant avec celles de l'épidémiologie et des sciences sociales, pour tenir compte de la complexité du concept de santé. Il a aussi examiné les enjeux concrets de I'organisation et du financement des soins : combien doit-on former de médecins? Quel est le niveau acceptable des dépenses de santé? Faut-il privatiser le financement? Quels sont les déterminants de la santé d'une population? Il est connu pour sa participation active aux débats publics sur le système de santé au Québec, au Canada et aussi très largement en France et en Amérique Latine.

Deborah Joanne Cook MD, FRCPC, MSc, is a prolific, world-renowned scientist and educator in critical care medicine and research methodology. Dr. Cook has advanced our scientific knowledge in numerous ways, most notably in the prevention and management of the often lethal problems of deep venous thrombosis and pneumonia among critically ill patients. ------------------ COOK, Deborah Joanne –Department of Medicine, McMaster University Deborah Joanne Cook MD, FRCPC, MSc, is a prolific, world-renowned scientist and educator in critical care medicine and research methodology. Dr. Cook has advanced our scientific knowledge in numerous ways, most notably in the prevention and management of the often lethal problems of deep venous thrombosis and pneumonia among critically ill patients. Her medical discoveries have saved many lives and are used around the world. She has also been a pioneer in compassionate and ethical end-of-life care. She holds a senior Canada Research Chair and has received local, provincial, national and international awards for her research, teaching and leadership.

Richard Cook is a world leader in the development of statistical theory and methods for studying life history processes. His innovative modeling strategies for complex processes, and associated methods for the design and analysis of randomized trials and observational studies, have been highly influential both in statistics and in several areas of medical science.

Richard Cook est un chef de file mondial dans le développement de la théorie et des méthodes statistiques pour l’analyse des processus de cycles de vie. Ses stratégies de modélisation innovatrices pour processus complexes et ses méthodes pour la planification et l’analyse d’essais randomisées et d’études par observation ont joué un rôle déterminant dans le domaine de la statistique et de plusieurs champs médicaux.

Professor Cook is recognized as one of the world's foremost contributors to the theory of computational complexity. The field is concerned with developing and analyzing algorithms for solving problems faster, and proving lower bounds for the time required to solve certain problems no matter what algorithm is used. Cook has shown that a large number of combinatorial problems can be classified into a group now called NP complete. For these problems no good algorithm now exists, and Cook showed that if a good algorithm exists for any one of the group, it does for them all. His work has already inspired over 100 papers by other researchers. Much of Cook's current work is centered around proving that no good algorithm exists for one (and thus all) of these problems. This question is now regarded as the most important question in the theory of computation, and a very important open question in mathematics generally.

Jessica Coon leads an innovative research program that pairs theoretical research in syntax and morphology with community outreach and language revitalization programs in Indigenous language communities. Her research focuses primarily on Mayan languages currently spoken in southern Mexico and Guatemala, as well as Mi’gmaq, an Algonquian language indigenous to eastern Canada. Her work aims to understand the unique human capacity for language, and how this capacity connects to broader processes of human cognition.

Jessica Coon dirige un programme de recherche novateur associant des recherches théoriques sur la syntaxe et la morphologie à des programmes de rayonnement communautaire et de revitalisation de la langue au sein des communautés de langues autochtones. Ses recherches portent principalement sur les langues mayas actuellement parlées dans le sud du Mexique et au Guatemala, ainsi que sur le Mi’gmaq, une langue algonquienne propre à l’est du Canada. Son travail tente de comprendre la capacité humaine unique pour le langage et les liens entre cette capacité et des processus cognitifs humains plus larges.

Barry Cooper's works range from studies in Canadian politics to biography to philosophy. His seminal work, "The End of History", is one of the three most important books to have appeared in the field of political philosophy in the last decade. He has also been an enthusiastic teacher who has awakened young minds to the joys of learning and has instilled in them the value of not only reflective scholarship but also of responsible citizenship. His wide ranging interests have been reflected in writings in manuscripts, popular magazines, and appearances in the media. He has a reputation both in Canada and abroad as lively, stimulating, and fearless in the advancement of his scholarly and popular points of view.

Professor Paul Copper of Laurentian University is an internationally renowned paleontologist and stratigraphical geologist, who has worked world-wide on the faunas of ancient carbonate reefs and platforms, their ecological succession, and the relationship of their episodic mass extinctions to global climatic change. He ranks as the world authority on the once-prolific tribe of atrypid brachiopods, their structural and functional morphology and global evolutionary relationships. Invited to assume responsibility for the atrypids in the new five-volume "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology" - the premier reference work on invertebrate fossils world-wide - he is completing analysis of some 260 genera and 5000 species of these complex and important fossils, which he has studied in all major geological museums of the world from Washington to Nanjing.

Corbo, Claude - Sciences politique - Université du Québec à Montréal Claude Corbo, docteur en philosophie, professeur, gestionnaire académique de haut niveau, a mené des travaux importants dans le domaine des institutions et des politiques publiques en matière policière. Ses nombreuses anthologies en font aussi un passeur culturel soucieux de transmettre un patrimoine intellectuel culturel.

Corbo, Claude - Sciences politique - Université du Québec à Montréal Claude Corbo, docteur en philosophie, professeur, gestionnaire académique de haut niveau, penseur politique et auteur, a mené des travaux importants dans le domaine des institutions et des politiques publiques et, en particulier, dans les champs de la sécurité publique, dont la formation policière, de l’éducation, de l’interculturel et de la citoyenneté. Ses travaux ont eu des retombées directes sur l’élaboration des lois et sur la réforme des institutions. C’est un spécialiste reconnu de l’histoire des États-Unis et ses nombreuses anthologies publiées en font un passeur culturel soucieux de transmettre un patrimoine intellectuel dont son livre Monuments intellectuels québécois du XXe siècle (2006) témoigne.

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is a pioneering international scholar and jurist in sustainable development law and governance, comparatively analysing legal innovations to address climate change, biodiversity loss, pandemic recovery and other critical global challenges and interactionally informing international treaty regimes implementation and compliance. Her ground-breaking scholarly volumes include the textbook Sustainable Development Law (OUP 2004, 2023); Athena’s Treaties (OUP 2021) and her influential Implementing Treaties for Sustainable Development series (CUP 2008-2022).

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger est une chercheuse et juriste internationale qui fait figure de pionnière dans le domaine du droit et de la gouvernance du développement durable. Elle analyse de manière comparative les innovations juridiques réalisées pour résoudre les problèmes liés aux changements climatiques, à la perte de biodiversité, au rétablissement des pandémies et à d’autres défis mondiaux cruciaux et éclaire de manière interactionnelle la mise en œuvre et en application des régimes de traités internationaux. Parmi ses ouvrages universitaires novateurs, citons le manuel Sustainable Development Law (OUP 2004, 2023), le livre Athena’s Treaties (OUP 2021) et sa série influente Implementing Treaties for Sustainable Development (CUP 2008-2022).