The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, was located at the

Canada Science and Technology Museum The Canada Science and Technology Museum (abbreviated as CSTM; french: Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada) is a national museum of science and technology in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum has a mandate to preserve and promote ...

in Ottawa, Ontario, honoured Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to society in science and engineering. It also promoted role models to encourage young Canadians to pursue careers in science, engineering and technology.Criteria: Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
, Canada Science and Technology Museum. The hall included a permanent exhibition, a traveling exhibition, a virtual gallery, and events and programming to celebrate inductees.The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
The Canadian Encyclopedia. In 2017, the hall of fame was closed down.

History

The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame was established in 1991 through a joint partnership by the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the

National Research Council of Canada The National Research Council Canada (NRC; french: Conseil national de recherches Canada) is the primary national agency of the Government of Canada dedicated to science and technology research & development. It is the largest federal research ...

(NRC),

Industry Canada Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED; french: Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada; french: ISDE, label=none)''Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada'' is the applied title under the Federal I ...

and the Association of Partners in Education, to mark the NRC's 75th anniversary.Andrew H. Wilson
''Recognition of Engineers and Engineering Achievements''
, The Cedargrove Series of Discourses, Memoirs and Essays, The Engineering Institute of Canada, 2009.The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: History
, Canada Science and Technology Museum. The hall became a major feature of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, and has become a part of the museum's permanent Innovation Canada exhibition.

Induction Process

The museum used an open process for nomination of new members.The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: Making A Nomination
, Canada Science and Technology Museum. A selection committee reviewed nominations annually. Nominees must have met the following criteria: * They must have contributed in an exceptional way to the advancement of science and engineering in Canada; * Their work must have brought great benefits to society and their communities as a whole; * They must possess leadership qualities that can serve as an inspiration to young Canadians to pursue careers in science, engineering or technology. In April 2015, two members of the selection committee,

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, resigned over concerns that, for the second year in a row, there were no female candidates in the list of finalists.

Members

The following people have been inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of FameThe Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: The Hall
, Canada Science and Technology Museum. (listed by date of birth): *

William Edmond Logan Sir William Edmond Logan, FRSE FRS FGS (20 April 1798 – 22 June 1875), was a Canadian-born geologist and the founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada. Life William Edmond Logan was born into a well-to-do Montreal family ...

(1798–1875) *

John William Dawson Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899) was a Canadian geologist and university administrator. Life and work John William Dawson was born on 13 October 1820 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he attended and graduated from Pictou Academy. Of Scotti ...

(1820–1899) *

Sandford Fleming Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, ...

(1827–1915) *

Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Te ...

(1847–1922) *

Reginald Fessenden Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-born inventor, who did a majority of his work in the United States and also claimed U.S. citizenship through his American-born father. During his life he received hundre ...

(1866–1932) * Charles Edward Saunders (1867–1937) *

Maude Abbott Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (March 18, 1868Sources disagree on the date of Abbott's birth. The Canadian Encyclopedia'Maude Abbott Medical Museum and the ' are among the sources that support a birthdate of 18 March 1868. However, articles in the ...

(1869–1940) *

Wallace Rupert Turnbull Wallace Rupert Turnbull (October 16, 1870 – November 24, 1954) was a Canadian engineer and inventor. The Saint John Airport was briefly named after him. He was inducted in Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1977. Biography Born in Saint John, N ...

(1870–1954) *

Ernest Rutherford Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' considers him to be the greatest ...

(1871–1937) * Harriet Brooks Pitcher (1876–1933) *

Frances Gertrude McGill Frances Gertrude McGill (November 18, 1882 – January 21, 1959) was a Canadian forensic pathologist, criminologist, bacteriologist, allergologist and allergist. Nicknamed "the Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan" for her deductive skills and pu ...

(1882–1959) * Alice Evelyn Wilson (1881–1964) * Frère Marie-Victorin (1885–1944) * John A.D. McCurdy (1886–1961) *

Andrew McNaughton Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived ...

(1887–1966) * Margaret Newton (1887–1971) *

Chalmers Jack Mackenzie Chalmers Jack Mackenzie, (July 10, 1888 – February 26, 1984) was a Canadian civil engineer, chancellor of Carleton University, president of the National Research Council, first president of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, first president ...

(1888–1984) * Henry Norman Bethune (1890–1939), inducted in 2010 *

Frederick Banting Sir Frederick Grant Banting (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter, and Nobel laureate noted as the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential. In 1923, Banting and J ...

(1891–1941) *

Wilder Penfield Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American Canadians, American-Physicians in Canada, Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of th ...

(1891–1976) * E.W.R. "Ned" Steacie (1900–1962) * George J. Klein (1904–1992), inducted in 1995 *

Gerhard Herzberg Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, (; December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge o ...

(1904–1999) * Elizabeth "Elsie" MacGill (1905–1980) * George C. Laurence (1905–1987), inducted in 2010 *

Helen Sawyer Hogg Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg (August 1, 1905 – January 28, 1993) was an American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research into globular clusters and variable stars. She was the first female president of several astronomical organizations and a ...

(1905–1993) *

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Joseph-Armand Bombardier (; April 16, 1907 – February 18, 1964) was a Canadian inventor and businessman who was the founder of Bombardier. His most famous invention was the snowmobile. Biography Born in Valcourt, Quebec, Joseph-Armand Bombar ...

(1907–1964) *

Alphonse Ouimet Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet, (June 12, 1908 – December 20, 1988) was a Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) from 1958 to 1967 Born in Montreal, he received a degree in electrical engineering fr ...

(1908–1988) *

John Tuzo Wilson John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. ''Plate tectonics'' is the scientific theory that the rigi ...

(1908–1993) * Arthur Porter (1910-2010) *

Pierre Dansereau Pierre Dansereau (October 5, 1911 – September 28, 2011) was a Canadian ecologist from Quebec known as one of the "fathers of ecology". Biography Born in Outremont, Quebec (now part of Montreal), he received a Bachelor of Science in Agricult ...

(1911–2011), inducted in 2001Pierre Dansereau, Charles Scriver Inducted Into The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
, News Release, Canada Science and Technology Museum, November 8, 2001. * M. Vera Peters (1911-1993) *

Hugh Le Caine Hugh Le Caine (May 27, 1914 – July 3, 1977) was a Canadian physicist, composer, and instrument builder. Le Caine was brought up in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) in northwestern Ontario. At a young age, he began making musical instruments. In yo ...

(1914–1977) * Douglas Harold Copp (1915–1998) * Harold Elford Johns (1915–1998), inducted in 2000 *

James Hillier James Hillier, (August 22, 1915 – January 15, 2007) was a Canadians, Canadian-Americans, American scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America ...

1915-2007, inducted in 2002 * Bertram Neville Brockhouse 1918-2003 *

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 ...

1918- * John "Jack" A. Hopps 1919-1998 * Gerald Heffernan (1919–2007) * James Milton Ham (1920–1997) * Raymond Urgel Lemieux (1920–2000) *

Lawrence Morley Lawrence Whitaker Morley (February 19, 1920 – April 22, 2013) was a Canadian geophysicist and remote sensing pioneer. He was best known for his studies on the magnetic properties of the oceanic crust and their effect on plate tectonics and for ...

1920-2013 *

Louis Siminovitch Louis Siminovitch (May 1, 1920 – April 6, 2021) was a Canadian molecular biologist. He was a pioneer in human genetics, researcher into the genetic basis of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, and helped establish Ontario programs explor ...

(1920–) *

Ursula Franklin Ursula Martius Franklin (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a German-Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years.Lumley, Elizabeth (editor) (2008), ''Canadi ...

(1921–2016) * Gerald Hatch (1922–2014) * Willard Boyle (1924–2011), inducted in 2005 *

Ernest McCulloch Ernest Armstrong McCulloch (27 April 1926 – 20 January 2011) was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells. Biography McCulloch was born in Toronto, Ontar ...

(1926–2011), inducted in 2010Till and McCulloch inducted into Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
Stem Cell Network, October 21, 2010. *

Sylvia Fedoruk Sylvia Olga Fedoruk ( e-doruk Ukrainian: Федорук) (May 5, 1927 – September 26, 2012) was a Canadian physicist, medical physicist, curler and the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. Life Born in Canora, Saskatchewan, the daughter ...

(1927–2012) *

Sidney van den Bergh Sidney Van den Bergh, OC, FRS (born 20 May 1929 in Wassenaar) is a retired Dutch-Canadian astronomer. He showed an interest in science from an early age, learning to read with books on astronomy. In addition to being interested in astronomy. ...

(1929-) *

John Polanyi John Charles Polanyi ( hu, Polányi János Károly; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Canadian chemist. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was born into the prominent Hungari ...

(1929–) *

Richard E. Taylor Richard Edward Taylor, (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018), was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations ...

(1929–), inducted in 2008Nobel Prize winning U of A grad to be inducted into hall of fame
, The Edmonton Journal, April 24, 2008. * Vernon Burrows (1930–) * Charles Robert Scriver (1930–), inducted in 2001 *

James Till James Edgar Till (born August 25, 1931) is a University of Toronto biophysicist, best known for demonstrating – with Ernest McCulloch – the existence of stem cells. Early work Till was born in Lloydminster, which is located on the b ...

(1931–), inducted in 2010 * Michael Smith (1932–2000) *

Hubert Reeves Hubert Reeves (born July 13, 1932), is a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science. Early life and education Reeves was born in Montreal on July 13, 1932, and as a child lived in Léry. Reeves attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, a ...

(1932–) * Kelvin K. Ogilvie (1942-) *

Arthur B. McDonald Arthur Bruce McDonald, P.Eng (born August 29, 1943) is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's Univer ...

(1943–) * Ransom A. Myers (1952–2007)

References

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External links

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official webpage. Canada Science and Technology Museum official website Science and technology halls of fame Halls of fame in Canada Culture of Ottawa Awards established in 1991 1991 establishments in Canada 2017 disestablishments in Canada