Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholara professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist. McLuhan's work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries.[1][2] McLuhan is known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "the global village" and predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented.[3] Although he was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s, his influence started to wane in the early seventies.[4] In the years after his death, he would continue to be a controversial figure in academic circles. With the arrival of the internet, however, there was renewed interest in his work and perspective.

Myer Horowitz (born December 27, 1932)[1] is a Canadian academic who served as the ninth president of the University of Alberta from 1979 to 1989. Horowitz was born in Montreal, Quebec on December 17, 1932. He attended the School of Teachers at McGill University and received his BA at Sir George Williams College in 1956.[2] He earned a Master of Education from the University of Alberta in 1959 and a Doctor of Education from Stanford University in 1965. Horowitz taught for eight years in Montreal before accepting a position as a professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University.[2] He left McGill in 1969 to Alberta, where he accepted a position of Chair of the University of Alberta's Department of Elementary Education. He would later go on to serve various other academic positions in the University of Alberta: Dean of the Faculty of Education (19721975) and VicePresident (Academic) (19751979).[2] Horowitz became the ninth president of the University of Alberta on August 1, 1979, succeeding Harry Gunning. He became known for his advocation for widely accessible early childhood services - something that he continued to fight for after his retirement as president in

1989, fighting against the Alberta government's decision to reduce funding for kindergartens.[2] He was succeeded as president by Paul Davenport. He became the Professor Emeritus of Education in 1989 and President Emeritus in 1999[3] in the U of A. He moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1998[3] and became the adjunct professor of Education at the University of Victoria. He is currently a member of the faculty involved with the University of Victoria's Centre for Youth and Society.[2] Horowitz was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1990, and has received eight[3] honorary doctrate degrees. The Myer Horowitz Theatre on the University of Alberta Campus is named in his honor

Frederick Banting

Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, FRS,[1] FRSC (November 14, 1891 February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the main discoverers of insulin.[2] In 1923 Banting and John James Rickard Macleod received the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Banting shared the award money with his colleague, Dr. Charles Best. As of September 2011, Banting, who received the Nobel Prize at age 32, remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the area of Physiology/Medicine.[3] The Canadian government gave him a lifetime annuity to work on his research. In 1934 he was knighted by King George V. In 2004, Frederick Banting was voted 4th place on The Greatest Canadian.

David H.Levy

David H. Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994. Levy was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1948. He developed an interest in astronomy at an early age. However, he pursued and received bachelors and masters degrees in English literature.[1] In 1967 he was nearly expelled from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's Montreal Centre after a disagreement with some members of its administration.[2] "Levy will never amount to anything," one senior official of the RASC remarked in 1968.[3] Years later, Levy began a correspondence with Isabel Williamson, the person most responsible for his nearouster. These letters turned into visits, the presentation of the National Service Award to Miss Williamson, and the naming of the Montreal Centre's Observatory after her.[4]

Roger Gaudry
Roger Gaudry, CC, GOQ, MSRC (December 15, 1913 October 7, 2001) was a Quebecer chemist, businessman, corporate director, and former rector of the Universit de Montral. Born in Quebec City, he received a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 1937 and a Doctor of Science in Chemistry in 1940 from Universit Laval. A Rhodes scholar, he attended the University of Oxford from 1937 to 1939. From 1940 to 1945, he was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Faculty of Medicine at Universit Laval. He was appointed an Associate Professor in 1945 and Professor in 1950. In 1954, he became the Assistant Director of Research at Ayerst, McKenna & Harrison Ltd. (now Wyeth) in Montreal. From 1957 to 1965, he was the Director and Vice President from 1963 to 1965. From 1965 to 1975, he served as the rector of the Universit de Montral. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: Connaught Laboratories Ltd., CDC Life Sciences Inc., Bank of Montreal, Alcan, Hoechst Canada, S.K.W. Canada Ltd., Bio-Recherche Lte, Corby Distilleries Ltd, and St. Lawrence Starch Co. Ltd. From 1983 to 1995, he was President of the Fondation Jules et Paul-Emile Lger, a Canadian charity which supports groups that help restore human dignity to those who have been rejected by society. The main building of the University of Montreal was named after him.

Dale Frail
Dale A. Frail is an astronomer working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico. He was born in Canada, spent much of his childhood in Europe, and his professional career has been based in the United States.

Career
Frail received his university education in Canada: first an undergraduate degree in Physics from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, followed by M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Astrophysics from the University of Toronto. In 1989 he moved to the United States as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow. After completing a prized Jansky Postdoctoral Fellowship[1] in 1993, he joined the research staff of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, where he remains today.

Ronald Gillespie Ronald James Gillespie, CM, FRSC (born August 21, 1924), a chemistry professor at McMaster University, specializes in the field of Molecular Geometry in Chemistry. In 2007 he was awarded the Order of Canada.[1] He was educated at the University of London obtaining a B.Sc in 1945, a Ph.D in 1949 and a D.Sc in 1957. He was Assistant Lecturer and then Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at University College London in England from 1950 to 1958. He moved to McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1958 and is now emeritus professor. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1965 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1977. Gillespie has done extensive work on expanding the idea of the Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR) model of Molecular Geometry, which he developed with Ronald Nyholm, and setting the rules for assigning numbers. He has written several books on this VSEPR topic in chemistry. With other workers he developed LCP theory, (ligand close packing theory), which for some molecules allows geometry to be predicted on the basis of ligand-ligand repulsions. Gillespie has also done extensive work on interpreting the covalent radius of fluorine. The covalent radius of most atoms is found by taking half the length of a single bond between two similar atoms in a neutral molecule. Calculating the covalent radius for fluorine is more difficult because of its high electronegativity compared to its small atomic radius size. Ronald Gillespies work on the bond length of fluorine focuses on theoretically determining the covalent radius of fluorine by examining its covalent radius when it is attached to several different atoms.[2]

William Spencer Vickrey

William Spencer Vickrey (21 June 1914 11 October 1996) was a Canadian professor of economics and Nobel Laureate. Vickrey was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with James Mirrlees for their research into the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. The announcement of the prize was made just three days prior to his death; his Columbia University economics department colleague C. Lowell Harriss accepted the prize on his posthumous behalf.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Rudolph "Rudy" Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[1] for his theory of electron transfer. Marcus theory, named after him, provides a thermodynamic and kinetic framework for describing one electron outer-sphere electron transfer. A type of chemical reaction linked to his many studies of electron transfer would be the transfer of an electron between metal ions in different states of oxidation. An example of this type of chemical reaction would be one between a bivalent and a trivalent iron ion in an aqueous solution. In Marcus's time chemists were astonished at the slow rate in which this specific reaction took place. This attracted many chemists in the 1950s and is also what began Marcus's interests in electron transfer. Marcus made many studies based on the principles that were found within this chemical reaction, and through his studies was able to create his famous Marcus theory. This theory gave way to new experimental programs that contributed to all branches within chemistry. Electron transfer is an one of the simplest forms of a chemical reaction. It constists of one substabce tranferring one of it's orbiting electons with another chemical. Electron transfer is one of the most basic forms of chemical reaction but without it life cannot exist. electron transfer is used in all respiratory functions as well as photosynthesis. in the process of oxidizing food molecules, 2 hydrogen ions,2 electrons,and an oxygen molecule react to make an exothermic reaction as well as H2O (water). He was born in Montreal, Quebec. He earned a B.Sc. in 1943 and a Ph.D. in 1946, both from McGill University. His graduate supervisor was Carl A. Winkler, who specialized in chemical reactions. In 1958, Marcus decided became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He is an

active professor at Caltech and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

Myron Samu el Scholes

(born July 1, 1941) is a Canadian-born American financial economist who is best known as one of the authors of the BlackScholes equation. In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a method to determine the value of derivatives. The model provides a conceptual framework for valuing options, such as calls or puts, and is referred to as the BlackScholes model.