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Prix Michel-Sarrazin
The Prix Michel-Sarrazin is awarded annually in the Canadian province of Quebec by the Club de Recherches Clinique du Québec to a celebrated Québécois scientist who, by their dynamism and productivity, have contributed in an important way to the advancement of research biomedical. It is named in honour of Michel Sarrazin (1659–1734) who was the first Canadian scientist. Winners SourceCRCQ *1977 – Michel Chrétien *1978 – Jean-Marie Delage *1979 – Guy Lemieux *1980 – Charles Philippe Leblond *1981 – René Simard *1982 – Louis Poirier *1983 – André Barbeau *1984 – Jacques R. Ducharme *1985 – André Lanthier *1986 – Claude Fortier *1987 – Domenico Regoli *1988 – Charles Scriver *1989 – Serge Carrière *1990 – Fernand Labrie *1991 – Étienne LeBel *1992 – Réginald Nadeau *1993 – Claude C. Roy *1994 – Jacques Leblanc *1995 – Clarke Fraser *1996 – Jacques Genest *1997 – Samuel Solomon *1998 – Jacques de Champlain *1999 – C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne LeBel
Étienne, a French analog of Stephen or Steven, is a masculine given name. An archaic variant of the name, prevalent up to the mid-17th century, is Estienne. Étienne, Etienne, Ettiene or Ettienne may refer to: People Scientists and inventors *Étienne Bézout (1730–1783), French mathematician *Étienne Louis Geoffroy (1725–1810), French entomologist and pharmacist *Étienne Laspeyres (1834–1913), German professor of economics and statistics *Étienne Lenoir (1822–1900), Belgian engineer who invented the first internal combustion engine to be produced in numbers *Étienne Lenoir (instrument maker) (1744–1832), French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle surveying instrument *Étienne Mulsant (1797–1880), French entomologist and ornithologist *Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), French lawyer, scientist and mathematician best known as the father of Blaise Pascal *Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist *Étienne Pierre Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Glorieux
Francis may refer to: People *Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State and Bishop of Rome *Francis (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Francis (surname) Places *Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada *Francis, Saskatchewan, Canada **Francis (electoral district) *Francis, Nebraska *Francis Township, Holt County, Nebraska *Francis, Oklahoma *Francis, Utah Other uses *Francis (film), ''Francis'' (film), the first of a series of comedies featuring Francis the Talking Mule, voiced by Chill Wills *''Francis'', a 1983 play by Julian Mitchell *FRANCIS, a bibliographic database *Francis (1793), ''Francis'' (1793), a colonial schooner in Australia *Francis turbine, a type of water turbine *Francis (band), a Sweden-based folk band * Francis, a character played by YouTuber Boogie2988 See also *Saint Francis (other) *Francies, a surname, including a list of people with the name *Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter T
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Milner
Brenda Milner (née Langford; July 15, 1918) is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Milner is a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and a professor of Psychology at the Montreal Neurological Institute.Brenda Milner Wins Balzan Prize for Cognitive Neurosciences (2011). Government of Canada. , she holds more than 25 honorary degrees and she continued to work in her nineties. Her current work covers many aspects of neuropsychology including her lifelong interest in the involvement of the temporal lob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Davignon
Jean Davignon, (born July 29, 1935) is a Canadians, Canadian physician, medical researcher, and academic. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received his Doctor of Medicine from the Université de Montréal in 1958 and a Master's degree, Master of Science degree in 1960 from McGill University. His research has focused on hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis. He is the Director of the Hyperlipidemia and Atherosclerosis Research Group of the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM). He is a professor of the Faculty of Medicine - Université de Montréal, Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal and adjunct professor of the Department of Experimental Medicine at McGill University. He is the co-founder of the Canadian Atherosclerosis Society and the Canadian Association for Familial Hypercholesterolemia. In 1995, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour. In 2006, he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martial G
Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial ; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of ''Epigrams'', published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist, and is considered the creator of the modern epigram. Early life Knowledge of his origins and early life are derived almost entirely from his works, which can be more or less dated according to the well-known events to which they refer. In Book X of his ''Epigrams'', composed between 95 and 98, he mentions celebrating his fifty-seventh birthday; hence he was born during March 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Laberge
Claude Laberge, Order of Canada, C.M., National Order of Quebec, O.Q., Doctor of Medicine, M.D., Ph.D., Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, FRCP(C) (born May 27, 1938) is a physician-geneticist and a Emeritus, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval in Quebec City, Québec City, Québec. He is a pioneer in the field of human genetics. Born in Sainte-Gertrude, Nicolet, Quebec, Nicolet, Québec, he studied at the Collège des Jésuites, received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Séminaire de Québec (1957), an M.D. from the Université Laval (1962). He completed his residency in pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario from 1962 to 1964. In 1967, he became a member of the Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (Pediatrics). A year later, he completed his Ph.D. in Human and Medical Genetics (1968) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques De Champlain
Jacques de Champlain, OC (13 March 1938 - 15 July 2009) was a scientist, doctor and professor from the Province of Quebec. Jacques de Champlain was a graduate of the Université de Montréal and McGill University and a pioneer in research on the nervous system. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada and an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec. He was a research professor in the Departments of Physiology and Medicine at the Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-de .... De Champlain died of a heart attack. References 1938 births 2009 deaths Canadian medical researchers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Université de Montréal alumni McGill University alumni Physicians from Montreal S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Solomon
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is Veneration, venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinic literature, rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in Books of Samuel, 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Genest
Jacques Genest (May 29, 1919 – January 5, 2018) was a Canadian physician and scientist. He founded the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM) and was an emeritus professor at Université de Montréal and a professor at McGill University. Genest was best known for founding and leading several organizations related to clinical research in Québec and for his work on arterial hypertension. Life and career Born in Montreal, Quebec, Genest received his medical degree from the University of Montreal. He completed his residency in internal medicine and pathology at the Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal before heading to Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland for a research fellowship. He was then a research associate and assistant physician at the The Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute in New York City, which later awarded him an honorary degree in 1986. Upon returning to Quebec, he was ask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarke Fraser
Frank Clarke Fraser (29 March 1920 – 17 December 2014) was a Canadian medical geneticist. Spanning the fields of science and medicine, he was Canada's first medical geneticist, one of the creators of the discipline of medical genetics in North America, and laid the foundations in the field of Genetic Counselling, which has enhanced the lives of patients worldwide. Among his many accomplishments, Fraser pioneered work in the genetics of cleft palate and popularized the concept of multifactorial disease. Biography Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he returned with his family to Canada when he was an infant. After a few years in Dublin, where his father, Frank Wise Fraser was Canadian Trade Commissioner, the family moved to Jamaica, where he received his primary and secondary school education at Munro College. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1940 from Acadia University, a Master of Science degree in 1941, a Ph.D. in 1945, and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1950 from McGill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
