PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1882 by the Marquis of Lorne.

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

Location:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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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