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Co-discoverer of vinblastine (from the Madagascar periwinkle plant) with Robert Noble at the University of Western Ontario in 1958. Vinblastine is a major chemotherapy drug used to treat cancers such as Hodgkin's disease, testicular and breast cancers.

Chemistry

Bryan Patrick Beirne

Internationally recognized pioneer in integrated pest management and the application of biological techniques to pest control.

Biology

Alexander Graham Bell

Worked with the deaf, inventor.

Physics

Louis Bernatchez

Top Canadian molecular biologist studying the genetics of fish populations

Biology

Charles Herbert Best

Co-discoverer of insulin

Medicine

John Bienenstock

Immunologist; international authority on mucosal immunity.

Medicine

Davidson Black

Identified a new species of ancient human, “Peking Man”

Earth

Myer Bloom

A pioneer in the field of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance who is now applying his expertise to the study of biological membranes.

Physics

James Robert Bolton

Studies in photochemistry and the photodegradation of pollutants

Chemistry

J. Richard (Dick) Bond

Theoretical studies of the cosmic background radiation and dark energy, and lead theoretician on the Boomerang experiment.

Physics

Jonathan M. Borwein

Internationally renowned mathematician who, with his brother Peter, calculated the value of pi to a new world record.

Mathematics

Peter B. Borwein

Internationally renowned mathematician who, with his brother Jonathan, calculated the value of pi to a new world record.

Mathematics

Norman L. Bowen

A founding father of experimental petrology.

Earth

Willard S. Boyle

Co-Inventor of the Charge Coupled Device for which he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics

Physics

Jess Brewer

particle physics

Physics

J. Keith Brimacombe

One of the finest metallurgical engineers of the twentieth century.

Engineering

Bertram Neville Brockhouse

Won the Nobel Prize in 1994 for designing the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectroscope and his use of it to investigate Condensed Matter

Physics

Leonard T. Bruton

Designed and developed electronic filters

Mathematics

Gerald Vincent Bull

Designed the supergun, the GC-45 howitzer; Aerophysicist, artillery designer and ballistics expert

Engineering

William (Bill) James Leslie Buyers

Researched magnetic excitations and structures of solids and liquids; first to observe the "Haldane Gap", thereby confirming a previously controversial theory in quantum magnetism.

Physics

Eric Ottleban Callen

Father of the study of human coprolites

Biology

Donald Brian Calne

Neurologist who first used synthetic dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease.

Medicine

Constantine Alberga Campbell

One of Canada's foremost soil scientists; made dryland farming more productive, profitable and sustainable

Biology

Jules P. Carbotte

Expert on superconductivity

Physics

Robert L. Carroll

Vertebrate palaeontologist who recognized and described the oldest known ancestor of all reptiles birds and mammals; the origins of terrestrial vertebrates, the origin of various amphibians such as frogs and salamanders.

Earth

Thomas Ming Swi Chang

Inventor of the artificial cell

Biology

John Herbert Chapman

Builder of the Canadian space program

Physics

Dennis Hubert Chitty

One of the first animal ecologists in the world and a world expert on lemmings

Biology

Ray Chu-Jeng Chiu

Pioneered surgical technique of cardiomyoplasty for failing hearts

Medicine

Matthew W. Choptuik

World leader in the field of Numerical Relativity

Physics

Bruce Chown

Studied Rh disease (erythroblastosis fetalis) and developed the serum which now prevents this illness worldwide

Medicine

Michel Chrétien

Endocrinologist who opened up a whole new branch of biology by discovering convertases, enzymes that cleave proteins to create biologically active chemicals such as hormones

Biology

John J. Clague

One of Canada’s leading authorities in Quaternary and environmental earth sciences

Earth

Colin Whitcomb Clark

Invented mathematical bioeconomics

Mathematics

Karl Adolf Clark

Pioneered the hot-water recovery process for extracting oil from tar sands.

Engineering

James Bertram Collip

One of the original patentees of insulin, and one of first to isolate parathyroid hormone

Biology

Mel Comisarow

Developed Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Spectroscopy

Chemistry

Brian Evans Conway

The dean of electrochemistry in Canada

Chemistry

Douglas Harold Copp

Discovered and named the protein calcitonin, for use in the treatment of bone disease

Biology

Paul Corkum

Developed attosecond (10^-18 or a billion billionths of a second) light pulses for molecular imaging.

Engineering

J. William (Bill) Costerton

Pioneered biofilm microbiology

Biology

Donald (H. S. M.) Coxeter

Greatest classical geometer of the 20th century

Mathematics

Fergus I. Craik

One of the world's foremost authorities in the areas of human memory and the effects of aging on learning, memory, and attention

Medicine

Pieter Cullis

Lipid-based drug delivery systems

Biology

Roger Daley

Principal constructor of the Canadian numerical weather forecasting system

Earth

Pierre Dansereau

Ecologist who changed scientific understanding of natural and man-made ecosystems and their interactions

Biology

Henri Darmon

One of the world's leading number theorists, working on Hilbert's 12th problem.

Mathematics

Alan Garnett Davenport

Pioneered the application of wind tunnels to the design of wind sensitive structures and worked to create international design standards for wind engineering.

Engineering

Adolfo J. de Bold

Biochemist; Discovered that the heart produces a hormone, the Atrial Natriuretic Factor (ANF)

Medicine

John Michael Dealy

Authority on the flow properties of molten polymers; their measurement and use in polymer science and plastics engineering

Engineering

Pierre Deslongchamps

Pioneered the synthesis of organic molecules

Chemistry

Johan (John) F. Dormaar

Soil scientist internationally recognized for his work on the effects of livestock grazing on rangeland soils, soil chemistry, and soil organic matter

Biology

Richard Keith Downey

The father of canola: a plant breeder who transformed rapeseed into an edible oilseed crop success story

Biology

Henry Edmison Duckworth

Determined precise atomic mass by greatly increasing resolution of the mass spectrometer

Physics

Jean H. Dussault

Endocrinologist; developed a method for testing infants for hypothyroidism

Medicine

Lloyd George Elliott

Led physics research at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories during its most constructive years.

Physics

Wayne F. J. Evans

Atmospheric scientist who has worked on several space satellite missions.

Earth

(Albert) Murray Fallis

Father of Canadian parasitology

Biology

Joel Feldman

Quantum physics mathematician: constructed a number of quantum field theories

Mathematics

Charles Fenerty

Inventor: First person to make newsprint from wood pulp

Engineering

M. Brock Fenton

One of the world’s foremost authorities on bats

Biology

Reginald A. Fessenden

First radio broadcast and scores of other inventions

Physics

Hans Christian Fibiger

Psychiatrist, leader in brain research and in the causes and treatments of clinical depression

Medicine

John Charles Fields

Established the Fields medal, the "Nobel Prize" of mathematics.

Mathematics

B. Brett Finlay

One of the world's foremost experts on the molecular understanding of the ways bacteria infect their hosts

Biology

Gilles Fontaine

World's foremost expert on the study of white dwarf stars

Physics

Yves Oscar Fortier

Pioneer of arctic geology and one of the first to recognize the oil and gas potential of the arctic

Earth

Armand Frappier

Researched BCG vaccine for tuberculosis, and infant leukemia

Biology

Barrie J. Frost

Visual neuroscientist who has pioneered research into how our brains see and hear, and how animals like monarch butterflies and seabirds navigate amazing distances.

Medicine