great canadian scientists about two years ago i posted the following i am planning to write a new book called great canadian scientists please forward your nominations to me shell cs sfu ca the rules are that the person must be a canadian citizen they don t have to be born in canada or even live in canada but they must have or have had if they are dead canadian citizenship while they are were great canadian scientists about people have been nominated already and they are listed at the end of this posting i m not quite sure what should constitute greatness and there may be a gray area here if you have any ideas on criteria for greatness i would be pleased to hear them in any event please nominate people even if you are not sure they are great i would like as big a list as possible please give me a name and email address phone number or mail address so that i can contact the person if you don t know any of the above then give me their last known whereabouts also please give your reason for why you think the person should be considered a great canadian scientist after i have the list i will choose about six of the most interesting ones and do in depth biographies of those individuals in the style of tracy kidder s soul of a new machine or some other dramatic technique the rest of the great canadian scientists will appear in an appedix with one paragraph biographies if you have any other ideas about this project i am interested to hear them so far i have received nominations as follows first name last name nominator famous for sid altman kuszewski john catalytic rna nobel chem frederick banting me insulin nobel u medicine davidson black stanley robert discovered peking man james r bolton warden joseph chemistry raoul bott smith steven math algebraic topology willard boyle chamm craig co inventor of ccd gerard bull stanley robert ballistics and gunnery dennis chitty galindo leal carlos first animal ecologist brian c conway tellefsen karen electrochemistry stephen cook mendelzon alberto np completeness complexity copp kuch gerald biochem aspects of physiol h s m coxeter calkin neil j regular polytopes math p n daykin palmer bill chem mosquito repellant h e duckworth anonymous mass spectroscopy admin jack edmonds snoeyink jack math operations research reginald fessenden johnsen hans wire insulation light bulb ursula franklin mckellin william physics archeol materials j a gray gray tom nuclear physics the gray e w guptill chamm craig slotted array radar donald hebb lyons michael learning hebbian synapses gerhard herzberg me optical spectr nobel james hillier me electron microscope can am crawford s holling galindo leal carlos ecology predators and prey david hubel lyons michael visual cortex nobel med kenneth iverson dare gary invented apl j d jackson austern matt elementary particle theory andre joyal pananagden prakash category theory categ logic martin kamen me carbon canadian amer irving kaplansky knighten bob algebra functional analysis george s kell kell dave hot water freezing t e kellogg palmer bill chem mosquito repellant geraldine kenney wallace siegman anthony chemistry administration brian kernaghan brader mark c programming language michael l klein marchi massimo theoretical chemistry charles j krebs galindo leal carlos ecology krebs effect k j laidler tellefsen karen chemical kinetics g c laurence palmer bill physics raymond lemieux smith earl first synthesized glucose martin levine meunier robert computer vision edward s lowry himself computer programming pere marie victorin meunier robert jardin botanique de montreal colin macleod turner steven nobel dna discovery marshall mcluhan clamen stewart social sci communications ben morrison willson david aurora borealis lawrence morley strome murray plate tektonics remote sense farley mowat abbott john northern animal rights kevin ogilvie kendrick kelly genetics cure for herpes sir william osler lyons michael medicine p j e peebles vishniac ethan most important cosmologist wilder penfield perri marie anatomical basis for memory john polanyi me chemiluminescensce nobel denis poussart meunier robert computer vision anatol rapoport lloyd jones david conflict theory game theory howard rapson sutherland russell pulp chemistry hans selye goel anil k psychology of stress william stephenson wilkins darin ww enigma code wire photo boris stoicheff siegman anthony raman spectroscopy david suzuki meister darren science communication henry taube parker wiley physical chemistry nobel richard taylor manuel john verified quark model nobel david thompson eisler michael mapped western canada endel tulving green christopher psychology of memory bill tutte royle gordon matroid theory math i uchida palmer bill down s syndrome j tuzo wilson collier john continental drift theory r h wright palmer bill chem mosquito repellant j l allen yen leone pasquale vl baseline interferometry walter zinn me breader reactor can amer the list is growing nicely it s amazing to see just how much was discovered by canadians actually there are many more who were born in canada but became americans after graduate school please note a lot of people have nominated alexander graham bell but i feel he was really a scottish american with a summer home in canada now i know this is debatable but please don t nominate him again if anyone can fill in some of the question marks on the list please drop me a line that was two years ago since then i have received a grant from science culture canada a division of supply and services canada to research the book since my old posting the book has evolved into an educational book for kids aged though this may change again it will have about two page spreads with a large graphic in the middle and text graphic boxes all around on the following subjects vital statistics and photo of the scientist personal statement from the scientist narrative of a few moments in the life of the scientist what i was doing when i was so you want to be a insert kind of scientist experiment you can do there will be an appendix with more scientists with one paragraph biographies who didn t quite make it to the double spreads the whole thing will then be published on cd rom with video and sound clips for added richness i am looking for a cd rom publisher as well the text part may also be available on the canarie electronic highway being developed in canada as well i am still looking for a publisher though penguin canada came close to being it hope to find one soon i would like to again ask for more nominations especially in the pure sciences of physics chemistry and biology also criticisms of the list are welcomed also women and french canadian scientists are needed i hope this posting will get others to nominate more great canadian scientists and to discuss what is great what is canadian and what is scientist please respond to shell sfu ca or barry shell quebec st vancouver b c v v m canada thanks to all who responded already
