science and invention in canada

Gerald Herzberg• received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1971 - electronic structure and geometry of molecules... Nobel Prizes• Gerhard Herzberg: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971 Hailed as

Canada &

Science

Alexander Graham Bell

Frederick Banting

Discovered insulin 10% of the population have diabetes

George J Klein

first nuclear reactor

in the 1940s

George J Klein

Gerald Herzberg

• received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1971

- electronic structure and geometry of molecules

Armand Bombardier

• revolutionized travel in snow and swamps

• developed the Ski-Doo™, a vehicle which has changed the lives of people living

in cold climates

Hugh Le Caine

• Hugh Le Caine: built the world's first voltage controlled music synthesizer (1945), touch sensitive keyboard, and variable speed multi-track tape recorder

Harold Johns

• Johns' most obvious achievement was the development of the cobalt-60 cancer therapy unit: revolutionizing the treatment of cancers located deep in the body.

Harold Johns

• His cancer therapy has been estimated to have benefited over seven million people worldwide.

Gerald Heffernan

• Invented modern mini-mill steel

manufacturing method

Crystal Reports – Canadian product

BlackBerry – Canadian product

Nortel – Canadian company

• In the 1990’s a

global leader

in

telecommunications

• The walkie-talkie as we know it today was produced by Canadian inventor Donald Hings in the 1930s

Peanut butter

• Canadian and Montreal

native Marcellus Gilmore

Edson patented the

concoction in 1884

• Canadian electrical engineer Gideon Sundback made the first modern-day zipper in 1913

• IMAX Corporation, which established the format and special-use cameras that would be used in IMAX movies

paint roller

• in 1940, Norman Breakey of Toronto first released the paint roller, ending centuries of brush strokes

Alfred Gross

• a mobile communication pioneer, credited with inventing CB radio, the telephone pager and cordless phone

Nobel Prizes

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Gerhard Herzberg: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971

Hailed as the father of modern spectroscopy, Dr Herzberg joined the NRC in 1948 and retired in 1995 at the age of 90 During his years at NRC, he established a laboratory that became the world centre for molecular spectroscopy

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John Polanyi: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986

Dr Polanyi was awarded the Nobel Prize for the development of a new field of research in chemistry called reaction dynamics He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the NRC Laboratories in Ottawa from 1952 to1954 The prize was shared between Polanyi, Dudley R Herschbach, and Yuan T Lee

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Dudley R Herschbach: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986

Dr Herschbach was awarded the Nobel Prize for the development of a new field of research in chemistry called reaction dynamics He was a visiting researcher at the NRC Laboratories in Ottawa in the early 1950s The prize was shared between Polanyi, Dudley R Herschbach, and Yuan T Lee

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Bertram Brockhouse: Nobel Prize in Physics 1994

Dr Brockhouse was awarded the Nobel Prize for the development of neutron spectroscopy, and for his pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter He was a member of the NRC atomic energy research division at Chalk River from 1950 to 1952, and had previously worked at the NRC laboratories in Ottawa from 1944 to 1947 The prize was shared with Clifford G Schull

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Sir Frederick Banting: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923

Sir Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin He was a member of NRC's governing Council from 1938 to1941 His work at NRC helped found the Medical Research Council and its successor the Canadian Institutes of Health Research The prize was shared with John Macleod

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Rudolph Marcus: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992

Dr Marcus was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems His work at NRC brought about his radical switch to theoretical work, for which he won the Nobel Prize He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in NRC's Photochemistry Group from 1946 to1949

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Sir Harold Kroto: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996

Sir Kroto was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of fullerenes – new forms of the element carbon Sir Kroto was a Post-doctoral Fellow at NRC's Sussex Drive Laboratories in the 1960s The prize was shared with Robert Curl Curl worked at NRC briefly as a visiting researcher

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John Pople: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998

Dr Pople was awarded the Nobel Prize for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry He worked at NRC in 1956 and 1957, where he developed an interest in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) The prize was shared with Walter Kohn

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Sir John Cockcroft: Nobel Prize in Physics 1951

Sir Cockcroft was awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles He came to Canada during World War II to head the NRC Atomic Energy project as Director of the NRC Montreal and Chalk River Laboratories The prize was shared with Earnest T.R Walton

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Geoffrey Wilkinson: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973