Dr. Sheinin has used DNA tumor viruses and conditional lethal temperature sensitive mutants very effectively to probe the DNA synthetic machinery of eukaryotic cells. In the former system she has examined the mechanisms whereby polyoma virus controls DNA replication and affects the plasma membrane during neoplastic transformation. These studies together with the work using the conditional lethal mutants have elucidated several novel facets of the replicative machinery of somatic cells.

John Slykhuis is the leading Canadian on cereal viruses whose discoveries have given him an international reputation. His original discoveries include: the 'spermatosphere' of germinating grass seeds; six new virus deseases of cereals in Canada, England and Europe, and in most instances their insect carriers and practical control measures. He was the first to prove that mites transmit plant viruses. He has been invited to visit many countries to survey their cereal crops for virus diseases, and he is a past president of the Canadian Phytopathological Society.

Professor Dennis Smith is nominated for his distinguished research in the field of biomaterials, particularly as it relates to medical and dental surgery. Trained as a chemist, his early career was distinguished by the invention of the adhesive used in the famous "Charnley hip" prothesis. This was followed by his invention and development of polycarboxylate cements, now used world-wide in dental surgery. He has served on the faculty of the University of Toronto School of Dentistry as a Professor of Dental Material Sciences since 1969, one of the first such appointments made in Canada, and has been a world leader in his field since then. His many scientific publications relate particularly to the mechanical performance of a variety of dental and medical implants and devices, their compatibility with body fluids and tissues, and the development of improved designs for such purposes. He was the co-founder of the Canadian Society for Biomaterials and now serves as the founding Director of the Centre for Biomaterials at the University of Toronto.

Jacques Vanier has made important contributions in the research and development of rubidium masers, hydrogen masers and cesium standards. Most of his publications include both theoretical studies and experimental results. The explanation of experimental results, and the understanding of the basic physics of various devices has led to further experimental tests and innovations. This balanced and continuous interplay is characteristic of Jacques Vanier's research, and its excellence has earned him a worldwide reputation as a leader in the field of atomic standards.

H. D. Bruce Wilson is Professor of Geology at the University of Manitoba and a well known consultant in exploration for base metals. Among his major contributions in the field of economic geology are a comprehensive study of the Sudbury basin and its ore deposits, studies of the distribution of various metals in Canadian deposits, and criteria for interpretation of mineral paragenesis. His eminence in the field of ore genesis is recognized by his appointments as a member of the National Advisory Committee on Research in the Geological Sciences and as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Metallic Mineral Deposits. He is an inspiring and resourceful teacher under whom fundamental research is flourishing. His vigour, ability, and breadth of experience make him a welcome addition to this Society.

Professor Yong has made outstanding contributions to many areas of geosciences and geotechnical engineering. Among many fields he covered in his numerous papers, he is probably the best known for his investigations of the nature of the bonds among clay particles. The original experimental methodology he used in that research, can serve as a model to be followed in all future studies. Indeed, his masterly treatise on soil strength and properties, published in two books with B. Warkentin, has become a classic used in many universities. Another, very different field in which he has made very remarkable achievements in the last 25 years, is that of traction mechanics, with a particular emphasis on the trafficability of soils and snow for offroad vehicles. In 1976, he formed the McGill Geotechnical Research Centre, which, under his direction, has made highly notable achievements in the area of treatment of gel-like watery sludges created by petroleum extraction from tar sands. His work has lead to many awards, including most recently the Killam Prize and the title of "Chevalier de l'Ordre du Quebec".

Professor Pierre Depommier is a physicist of international stature who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of weak interactions in nuclear and particle physics both through his personal work and through the various research groups he has inspired. He was Director of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Montreal from 1969 to 1982 and in addition to his major contributions there he started a new inter-university research group working at TRIUMF. This led to his major role in the Time-Projection-Chamber collaboration involving several Canadian and American laboratories.

Dr. Sackett is an outstanding clinician scientist who has become a world leader in the development of scientific principles and methods in clinical epidemiological research. His personal research in clinical trials in cardiovascular disease has had a profound influence on the treatment of hypertension and arterial disease. He was the founding chairman of what is viewed by many as the world's leading department of clinical epidemiology, a department which has trained many students from both developed and developing nations. His book on "Clinical Epidemiology: A Basic Science for Clinical Medicine" has been widely acclaimed.

Antonio Gómez-Moriana, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal, is an internationally respected scholar in the fields of Spanish and Latin American Literatures, genre theory, sociocritism and theory of discourse. His books include a study of the Spanish writer Unamuno, a coauthored study of Lazarillo de Tormes, and a study of Lope de Vega. He made a major impact on literary theory with his "La subversion du discours rituel" (1985) and several related articles in which he formulated a coherent theoretical approach and a highly efficient methodology which allows him to analyse the tension that exists between a literary text and the many concomitant and conflicting discourses of a non-literary nature that affect its production and reading (historical, legal, philosophical, or even merely bureaucratic discourses). On the basis of this work, Dr. Gómez-Moriana became co-founder and co-director of the important series « L'univers des discours » currently published by Les Editions Balzac, with over 50 volumes to date devoted to the theory of genre and analysis of discourse. He was also a moving force behind a group of scholars at the Université de Montréal working on « Marginalisation et marginalité dans les pratiques discursives » . With Marc Angenot, MSRC, and Régine Robin, MSRC, he was co-founder of the Interuniversity Research Center CIADEST (Centre Interuniversitaire d'analyse des discours et sociocritique des textes) of Montréal. His most recent book is "Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism. The Spanish Golden Age" (University of Minnesota P, 1993). He was 'directeur fondateur' of the Department of Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal, and is presently professor of interdisciplinary studies at Simon Fraser University.

NOTICE LONGUE L’œuvre scientifique de M. Yves Duhoux est impressionnante. Elle porte principalement sur la langue grecque de l’Antiquité, en particulier le grec mycénien, forme la plus ancienne de grec écrit, l’aspect verbal en grec classique, la syntaxe et la morphologie du verbe, l’emploi des particules, le langage des femmes et divers sujets comme des questions d’étymologie, de syntaxe des propositions, de phonétique attique, de lexicologie, d’interprétations d’inscriptions alphabétiques. M. Yves Duhoux s’intéresse en outre aux langues préhelléniques, aux écritures préalphabétiques et à l’histoire des écritures. Ses publications connaissent un large rayonnement et ont considérablement enrichi et parfois radicalement renouvelé les connaissances dans plusieurs domaines de la linguistique et de l’histoire des langues. NOTICE COURTE L'œuvre d'Yves Duhoux porte principalement sur le mycénien. Ses travaux dans ce domaine sont fondateurs. Ses recherches ont également porté sur des langues peu connues et qui attendent d'être décryptées. Quant à ses études sur le grec classique portant sur la syntaxe, les particules, le langage des femmes, elles suscitent l'admiration des spécialistes en ce domaine.

LONG Daniel Brooks is among the world's most creative and prolific evolutionary biologists. Primarily responsible for modernizing studies of parasite evolution, he was a leader in developing modern methods for reconstructing evolutionary relationships, and created both the matrix representation method for coevolutionary and historical biogeographical studies, and the comparative phylogenetic approach for studying patterns of biological diversification. These research programs have found applications in medicine, pharmacology, anthropology, psychology, and semiotics. Recently, he designed and implemented a biodiversity inventory model, teaming international specialists with skilled local personnel (parataxonomists), which is being used as a template for biodiversity inventories globally. SHORT Daniel Brooks is among the world's most creative and prolific evolutionary biologists. Primarily responsible for modernizing studies of parasite evolution, he was a leader in developing modern methods for reconstructing evolutionary relationships. He created the matrix representation method for coevolutionary and historical biogeographical studies.