Royal Society of Canada

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Royal Society of Canada

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1882 by the Marquis of Lorne.

Official Website:
http://www.rsc.ca/

Founding Date:
25-May-1882

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Robert J. Birgeneau Educator 1942 Chancellor, UC Berkeley

Allan Blakeney Politician 7-Sep-1925 16-Apr-2011 Premier of Saskatchewan, 1971-82

Bertram N. Brockhouse Physicist 15-Jul-1918 13-Oct-2003 Triple-axis crystal spectrometry

George Grant Philosopher 13-Nov-1918 27-Sep-1988 Propagator of Red Toryism

Ian Hacking Philosopher 18-Feb-1936 The Taming of Chance

Holger H. Herwig Historian 25-Sep-1941 Germany's Vision of Empire in Venezuela

Gerhard Herzberg Physicist 25-Dec-1904 3-Mar-1999 Molecular spectroscopy

John Macleod Scientist 6-Sep-1876 16-Mar-1935 Helped discover insulin

C. B. Macpherson Scholar 18-Nov-1911 22-Jul-1987 Political Theory of Possessive Individualism

Antonine Maillet Novelist 10-May-1929 Pélagie-la-Charette

Rudolph A. Marcus Chemist 21-Jul-1923 Electron-transfer reactions

Thomas L. Pangle Scholar 29-Nov-1944 Leo Strauss: An Introduction

Gordon Pinsent Actor 12-Jul-1930 Fraser, Sr. on Due South

John C. Polanyi Chemist 23-Jan-1929 Infrared chemiluminescence

E. J. Pratt Poet 4-Feb-1883 26-Apr-1964 Newfoundland Verse

Ernest Rutherford Physicist 30-Aug-1871 19-Oct-1937 Father of nuclear physics

Charles Taylor Philosopher 5-Nov-1931 Sources of the Self

Richard E. Taylor Physicist 2-Nov-1929 Verified existence of quarks

Vaira Vike-Freiberga Head of State 1-Dec-1937 President of Latvia, 1999-2007

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