NobelCanadian
Commemorating Canada’s Nobel Laureates
NobelCanadian explores the lives, careers, and impacts of Canada’s Nobel laureates. Learn about the individuals and organizations who studied, worked, and based their identities in Canada. What earned them a Nobel Prize? How does birthplace, education, or career change who is deemed a “Canadian” laureate? Which Canadian has not won the Nobel Prize, but perhaps deserves to? Find out more in NobelCanadian!
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Following our commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the Discovery of Insulin and Dr. Gerhard Herzberg’s 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics, Defining Moments Canada is showcasing all of Canada’s other Nobel stories. NobelCanadian explores laureates and prizes that are connected to Canada through birth, scholarship, place of work, or other factors. These notable figures in science, literature, and politics have had major impacts on society, but often their stories – and the historical context surrounding their work – are unfamiliar to many Canadians. The Nobel laureates featured in NobelCanadian include:
- Ernest Rutherford (& Frederick Soddy)
- Frederick Banting & John James Rickard Macleod
- William Giauque
- Lester Pearson
- Gerhard Herzberg
- David Hubel
- Andrew Schally
- Henry Taube
- John Polanyi
- Michael Smith
- Bertram Brockhouse
- The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
- Willard Boyle
- Alice Munro
- Arthur McDonald
- Donna Strickland
- Michael Houghton
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