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Notable Scientists
- Sid Altman - Molecular Biology
- Frederick Banting - medical scientist, co-discovered insulin
- Charles Best - medical scientist, co-discovered insulin
- Wilfred Bigelow - first artificial pacemaker
- Bertram Brockhouse - designed the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectroscope
- William Dawson - first Canadian-born scientist of worldwide reputation
- William Francis Giauque - 1949 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry
- James Gosling - Programmer, inventor of Java
- Gerhard Herzberg - 1971 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for Molecular Spectroscopy
- David Hubel - 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine for mapping the visual cortex
- Charles Huggins - 1966 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine for discovering that hormones could control some cancers
- Doreen Kimura - Behavioural Psychologist: World expert on sex differences in the brain
- Julia Levy - Microbiologist: co-discovered photodynamic anti-cancer drugs
- William Logan - founded the Geological Survey of Canada, knighted by Queen Victoria, awarded the French Legion of Honor.
- John Macoun - Noted botanist.
- Rudolph Marcus - 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for electron transfer reactions (e.g. rust)
- Ernest McCulloch - cellular biologist created for the discovery of stem cell with James Till.
- Maud Menten - medical scientist, made groundbreaking work in enzyme kinetics
- Henry Morgentaler - abortionist who helped legalize abortion in Canada and strengthen the power of jury nullification
- William Osler - Physician, "most influential physician in history"
- Wilder Penfield - Neurosurgeon, discovered electrical stimulation of the brain
- John Polanyi - winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for infrared chemiluminescence
- Hubert Reeves - Astrophysicist and science popularizer
- Charles Edward Saunders - Marquis Wheat
- Arthur Schawlow - 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (for lasers)
- Myron Scholes - 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Economics
- Hans Selye - pioneering stress researcher
- Michael Smith - 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry for site-based mutagenesis
- David Suzuki - geneticist and science popularizer
- Henry Taube - 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for electron transfer reactions
- Richard Taylor - 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for verifying the Quark Theory
- James Till - Canadian biophysicist, created for the discovery of stem cell with Ernest McCulloch.
- Irene Ayako Uchida - Cytogenticist: World-famous Down syndrome researcher
- William Vickrey - 1996 Nobel Prize winner in economics
- Harold Williams - Geologist, expert on the Appalachian Mountains.
- Tuzo Wilson - Geophysicist. plate tectonics
