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Dr. Cyril Kay
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Hydrodynamics, optical spectroscopy, protein structure & function, calcium building proteins, muscle contraction
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Cyril M. Kay is an outstanding biophysical chemist, whose studies on cardiac and skeletal muscle proteins, transfer RNA, synthetic polynucleotides and more complex systems such as wheat embryo ribosomes and mammalian viruses, are described in more than 300 publications and have earned him an enviable international reputation. He developed the methods used for the isolation of purified muscle proteins, has characterized the individual proteins of the system, and has provided information regarding the molecular mechanisms involved in the contractile process. Dr. Kay was the 1970 recipient of the Ayerst Award in Biochemistry, has served on M.R.C. and C.H.F. Committees, is an associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Biochemistry, editor-in-chief of PAABS Revista, and President-Elect of the Canadian Biochemical Society.
Dr. Paul Kebarle
Affiliation: University of Alberta
Keywords: Ions in gas phase, thermochemistry of ions, mass spectrometry, ion-molecule reactions, ion solvation
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Professor Paul Kebarle has had an increasingly productive professional career in mass spectometry. During years of dedication he has developed fundamental ideas and data that are being used not only in physical chemistry, but also in several other disciplines. His work on gas phase solvation equilibria is recognized as a classic study. A study of ion-molecule reactions in the gas phase that was first systematically developed in his laboratory has become the outstanding source of thermo-chemical information for ion-molecule aggregates. He has carried out fundamental work on intrinsic basicities and acidities. The impact of his work is reflected in the numerous invitations he receives, particularly from physical organic chemists, to present lectures.
Dr. Charlotte Keen
Affiliation: Natural Resources Canada
Keywords: Earth science
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Charlotte Keen is an outstanding young marine geophysicist. She undertakes innovative and difficult experiments at sea, in the hostile regions of the North Atlantic and eastern Arctic, and interprets the results with excellent theoretical insight. She showed that the mantle beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is anisotropic, and that the oceanic crust developed in a relatively short time. She showed that Bafin Bay possesses an oceanic crust; she showed that the transition from continent to ocean off the rifted margin of eastern Canada is narrow, and the transition zone anomalous. Her work led to the recognition of hitherto unknown magnetic lineations in Baffin Bay, the Quiet Zone of the northwest Atlantic Ocean and the Newfoundland Basin. Her influence saw that ocean bottom seismometers were developed and used to study the transition from continent to ocean. She is one of the pioneers of deep marine seismic reflection studies of rifted continental margins and was instrumental in the initiation of LITHOPROBE, Canada's National Program of 3-dimensional studies of the earth's crust and upper mantle. She influences the work of all her colleagues, and has guided many students. She is the recipient of many honours internationally, including the Woolard Award of the Geological Society of America and the Wilson Medal of the Canadian Geographical Union.
Dr. Geraldine Kenney-Wallace
Affiliation: British Aerospace Virtual University
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Geraldine Kenney-Wallace is widely recognized for her important contributions to our knowledge concerning very fast molecular relaxation and interactions. She is an acknowledged authority on the application of laser spectroscopic techniques in physical chemistry. Early studies using nano- and picosecond lasers led to the measurement of the life-times of solvated electrons, the confirmation of two-photon photoionization of arenes. in polar liquids, and the clarification of the structures of molecular solvation clusters. More recent researches using subpicosecond non-linear optical spectroscopy in the femtosecond range elucidated the nature of ultra-fast molecular dynamic processes in liquids including the direct observation of the temporal evolution of intramolecular vibrations.
In addition, her significant involvement in science policy matters has recently been acknowledged by her appointment as President of the Science Council of Canada.
Dr. Robert Kerrich
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Keywords: Geochemistry, geodynamics, archean, environment
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Robert Kerrich is one of the world's leaders in the study of crustal tectonics, fluid dynamics and the formation of mineral deposits. He has made major contributions to our understanding of the behaviour of fluids in the Earth's crust and their influences on the dynamics of the solid Earth.
Dr. J. Larkin Kerwin
Affiliation: Université Laval
Keywords: Mass Spectrometry
Electron spectroscopy
Aston bands
Molecular collisions
Isotope abundance limits
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Kerwin is a mass spectroscopist, and a distinguished one who is well known to us. He has proposed, and realized, important methods for improving the focusing properties of magnetic analysers. He has investigated the isotopic constitution of many elements. Recently, he has achieved a monochromatic electron beam which he has utilized to study vibrational energy levels in certain simple molecules. His mass spectroscopic laboratory at Laval, begun from scratch in 1948, is respected the world over.
His membership in the Physics Grants Screening Committee (of NRC), his chairmanship of the Advisory Panel on Electronics Research (of DRB), and his presidency (in 1954-55) of the Canadian Association of Physicists attest to his reputation among physicists. He was also Rector of the Université Laval (1972-77), President of the National Research Council of Canada (1980-89) and President of the Canadian Space Agency (1989-92).
Prof. Doreen Kimura
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
Keywords: Neuropsychology, cognition, psychoneuroendocrinology, brain lateralization, sex differences
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Dr. Doreen Kimura is an international leader in human neuropsychology. Her early work at the MNI shed new light on the perceptual and memory functions of the temporal lobes. She was the first to use the Broadbent dichotic-listening technique to demonstrate a dual functional asymmetry in the auditory system and its relation to cerebral dominance for speech. At The U. of Western Ontario, in a set of ingenious experiments, she established a close link between the programming of the oral movements of speech and that of nonverbal oral and manual movements. Her present research focusses on individual differences in cerebral organization, including hormonal influences.
Dr. Gerald King
Affiliation: McMaster University
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Professor G.W. King is a spectroscopist with an international reputation. His thesis under Ingold on the excited states of acetylene is A classic. Since then he has made many further important contributions to our knowledge of ultraviolet absorption spectra of a large number of interesting molecules, as well as to the study of their infrared and Raman spectra. In addition he has contributed to a theoretical understanding of the results. His book "Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure" is an excellent, well thought-out presentation of the subject and has been well received by students and teachers alike.
Dr. J. Kirkaldy
Affiliation: McMaster University
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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.
Dr. Michael Klein
Affiliation: Temple University
Keywords: Physical chemistry, materials science, biochemistry, biophysics
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M.L. Klein is a solid state theorist who is noted for his research on the physical properties of molecular solids and liquids. He has made extensive studies of the lattice dynamics of rare gas solids and has played a key role in the development of appropriate interatomic potentials for describing their properties. He is a co-editor of a definitive two-volume monograph on the rare gas solids.
Currently, Dr. Klein is using the techniques of statistical mechanics to develop microscopic intermolecular force models for understanding the structure and dynamics of plastic crystals and of films of methane and nitrogen absorbed on well-characterized graphite surfaces.
Dr. Roger Knowles
Affiliation: McGill University
Keywords: Microbiology, nitrogen transformations, methanotrophs
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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.
Dr. Charles Krebs
Affiliation: The University of British Columbia
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Charles J. Krebs is an international authority on the population dynamics of small mammals, which, at successive stages of his career, he has studied in the Eastern Arctic, England, California, Indiana, British Columbia, and the Yukon. Although small mammals are his specialty, Dr Krebs is well acquainted with the general population literature on plants and animals, and has written an outstandingly good text-book, now in its second edition. The principal thrust of the book is that ecological problems are unlikely to be solved until descriptions are followed up by experiments. Besides being a productive research worker, Dr Krebs is an excellent teacher.
Dr. A. Kresge
Affiliation: University of Toronto
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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.
Dr. Hans Kreuzer
Affiliation: Dalhousie University
Keywords: Surface science, catalysis, polymers, theoretical physics
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Hans Jürgen Kreuzer, Professor of Physics, Dalhousie University, has pioneered the application of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to the development of fundamental theories of dynamical processes in fields ranging from electron tunneling junctions to the field ion microscope and the low energy projection microscope. He created the modern theory of physisorption kinetics of surfaces processes, proposed the mechanism of laser-induced photodesorption by vibrational coupling for adsorbed molecules, and is responsible for the theory of electronic processes in high electric fields. His highly original seminal contributions have established him as a world leader in the science of interfaces.
Dr. Howard Krouse
Affiliation: University of Calgary
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Howard Roy Krouse, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Calgary, has achieved national and international distinction through his contributions to the theory of isotopic behaviour, instrumental techniques and the application of isotopic studies to a wide range of natural phenomena. Although he is multi-disciplinary and has actively promoted the use of stable isotope data for the understanding and solution of many problems, the emphasis and impact has been in the earth sciences. These contributions have been made by studying isotopes of sulphur, oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, selenium, tellurium, germanium, lithium and nitrogen. The result is a major improvement in our understanding of ore deposits, petroleum occurrences and dispersal patterns in the environment.
Dr. J. Kuehner
Affiliation: McMaster University
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John Kuehner went to McMaster in 1966 after ten very productive years at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory where he established for himself an international reputation in the field of nuclear spectroscopy. He was the first to carry-out particle-particle angular correlations, with one particle detected at O degrees to the beam, which led to his important discoveries of some of the high-spin rotational band members in the 2ONe. He was also a pioneer in the application of magnetic spectrographs to such difficult measurements. Since 1966 he has played a vital role in the development of the McMaster Nuclear Structure Laboratory. Recently he has been pioneering at McMaster the use of polarized ion beams in nuclear spectroscopy.
Dr. Jarmila Kukalova-Peck
Affiliation: Carleton University
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Dr. Jarmila Kukalova-Peck is an outstanding invertebrate palaeo-biologist and evolutionist, and multiple origin of insect metamorphosis. Her analysis of Palaeozoic fossils has revealed archalic leg structure underlying insect mouthparts and genitalia. Her conclusions have profoundly influenced the modern interpretation of insect phylogeny and evolution. Her discovery of accessory branches, or exites, on trunk limbs of fossil flying insects and of primitive wing articulations, led to her new theory that the wings of insects were formed from the accessory branches on the first leg segments rather than from the solid lateral outgrowths of dorsal skeleton. Moreover, the wings of insects are homologous and monophyletic, not derived several times independently. Finally, her phylogenetic classification of winged insects based on wing venation and articulation replaces previous unreliable systems.
Dr. Arnis Kuksis
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Keywords: Lipids, metabolism, atherosclerosis, chromatography, mass spectrometry
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Arnis Kuksis has developed methods of lipid analysis that have led to world wide recognition as a leader in this field and have enabled him to make important discoveries in human and animal metabolism with special reference to the understanding and treatment of disorders of lipid metabolism including the disease, atherosclerosis. He has been an invited lecturer at international meetings on 30 occasions. He has published over 220 articles, and 48 major reviews. He has also edited three books and a two-volume treatise on fat absorption for CRC Press. He is one of Canada's most productive and distinguished biochemists and he could be considered the top person in his field in the world.
Dr. Walter Kupsch
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Keywords: Stratigraphy
Petroleum exploration
Arctic environment
Geomorphology
Glaciation
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Born in the Netherlands 1919. B.Sc. (Amsterdam) 1943, went to the United States in 1946. M.Sc. (Michigan) 1948, Ph.D. (Michigan) 1950. Since 1950 on the staff of the Geology Department of the University of Saskatchewan, now holds the rank of Associate Professor.
During the summers of 1950-1956 carried out field investigations for the Saskatchewan Department of Natural Resources and in those of 1957-1958 was geologist with the Gulf Oil Company spending the latter summer in Peru. The summers of 1961 and 1962 he was engaged on geological work in the Arctic Islands.
He has broad geological interests and has made Pleistocene geology, geomorphology and stratigraphy his special fields. He is a prolific writer and has published extensively.
T. Kurtis Kyser
Affiliation: Queen's University
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T. Kurtis Kyser is one of the leading geochemists in North America. The principal thrust of his work involves the use of stable-isotope geochemistry to solve important problems in the Earth Sciences. He has made major contributions to the establishment of a heterogeneous mantle for the Earth and has greatly advanced our understanding of sedimentary basins and their constituent fluids. His novel high-resolution chemical and isotopic work has, for the first time, provided us with a detailed picture of past and current processes that have formed these crucially important features of the North American continent.
Mr. Jules Labarre
Affiliation: Université de Montréal
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Mr. Fernand Labrie
Affiliation: Université Laval
Keywords: Endocrinologie, cancer de la prostate, cancer ou sein, ménopause
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Fernand Labrie, directeur du Groupe du CRM en endocrinologie moléculaire, est à 41 ans l'un des chefs de file de la recherche endocrinologique contemporaine. Les travaux poursuivis sous sa direction ont permis, entre autres, d'éIucider plusieurs aspects fondamentaux du mécanisme d'action des hormones hypophysiotropes d'origine hypothalamique et de mettre en évidence la modulation exercée par les estrogènes, les androgènes et les progestines sur le contrôle de la sécrétion des hormones gonadotropes, ainsi que la médiation dopaminergique du contrôle de la sécrétion de la prolactine. La récente démonstration par son groupe de l'effet 'antifertilité' de la LHRH et de ses agonistes ouvre une nouvelle approche au contrôle de la fertilité chez la femme et chez l'homme.
Dr. Alistair Lachlan
Affiliation: Simon Fraser University
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Dr. Lachlan works in the field of mathematical logic. He is widely known for his highly original and ingenious proofs. Typical of these are those in a paper in which he uses game theory methods to derive results for recursively enumerable sets. Many of his results are quite deep and have considerable significance. He has settled some outstanding conjectures.
Branko Ladanyi
Affiliation: École Polytechnique de Montréal
Keywords: Géotechnique, génie nordique, mécanique des sols gelés, mécanique des roches, mécanique des matériaux
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Branko Ladanyi is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering of Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, where he has been involved in teaching and research for the last 30 years. He is well known for his work in permafrost engineering, rock mechanics and tunnelling. He has been in charge of the Northern Engineering Research and Documentation Centre of Ecole Polytochnique sincc 1972. Professor Ladanyi has co-authored a book on Frozen Ground Engineering, written chapters of several geotechnical books, and published over 200 papers on various topics of geotechnical engineering with a particular reference to foundations in frozen ground and ice. He is a recipient of the Québec Scientific Award (1974), the R.F. Legget Award of the Canadian Geotechnical Society (1981), the E.E.De Beer Award of the Belgian Geotechnical Society (1987), the E.F. Rice Memorial Lectureship Award of the Technical Council on Cold Regions Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (1991), and the Roger J.E. Brown Memorial Award of the Canadian Geotechnical Society (1993). In 1995, he also received the CAN-AM Civil Engineering Amity Award from the ASCE, the Standards Development Award from the American Society for Testing and Materials, the Canadian Northern Science Award from the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. and in 1996 the Horst Leipholz Medal from the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering. Dr. Ladanyi is also a Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, as well as of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.