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12 unusual facts about Royal Society of Canada


Albert Gjedde

Albert Gjedde is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Canada, the American College of NeuropsychoPharmacology and the Academy of Europe.

Ariel Fenster

Among them are the 1989 "Catalyst Award for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching" by the United States Chemical Manufacturers Association, the 1992 inaugural "McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science" from the Royal Society of Canada, the 1999 Raymond Gervais Award for Exceptional Contribution to Science Education given by the Quebec Association of Science Teachers, and the 2005 Michael Smith Award for the Promotion of Science by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada.

Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith

Geoffrey Francis Hattersley-Smith D.Phil, FRSC, FRGS, FAINA (22 April 1923 – 21 July 2012) was an English-born geologist and glaciologist, recognized as a pioneering researcher of Northern Canada.

He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1970 and in 1973 he retired as head of the DRB's Geotechnical Section and returned to England.

Hospice-Anthelme Verreau

Besides many contributions to the Historical Society of Montreal, of which he was the first president, and to the Royal Society of Canada, he published (1870–73) two volumes of memoirs concerning the invasion of Canada by the Americans.

Irene Gammel

2009, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Jonathan Borwein

He has received various awards including the Chauvenet Prize (1993), Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1994), Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2002), an honorary degree from Limoges (1999), and foreign membership in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2003).

Margaret Somerville

Margaret Anne Ganley Somerville, AM, FRSC (born April 13, 1942) is the Samuel Gale Professor of Law at McGill University, as well as professor in the university's faculty of medicine and the founding director of the law faculty's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law.

R. K. Gordon

In 1936 he was appointed as head of the Department of English and became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada the same year.

Stephen Scobie

Scobie is a founding editor of Longspoon Press, an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada, and the recipient of the 1980 Governor General's Award for McAlmon's Chinese Opera (1980) and the 1986 Prix Gabrielle Roy for Canadian Criticism.

Timothy Barnes

In 1985 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

University of Alberta Faculty of Arts

Since 1989, twenty-three Arts faculty members have been elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada, and six have received the 3M teaching award.


Andrew Donskov

Andrew Donskov's professional career spans more than 30 years, and his research has been recognized by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Petrovskaja Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

Andy Orchard

Andrew 'Andy' Orchard, FRSC is a British academic and a leading expert in Old English, Norse and Celtic literature.

Arthur Bourns

He had a distinguished academic career, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1964 and serving as a member of the National Research Council, 1969-1975.

Council of Canadian Academies

The Council is governed by a 12-member Board of Governors, a majority of whom are appointed by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada.

Edmund Murton Walker

He was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle medal in 1960, and was awarded an honorary degree from Carleton University.

George Ramsay Cook

George Ramsay Cook, OC, FRSC (born November 28, 1931 in Alameda, Saskatchewan), is a Canadian historian and general editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Maurice Ptito

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Academy of Optometry, and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Shana Poplack

Among her awards, she held a Fulbright visiting scholar award (1990) in Brazil, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998) and won that society's Pierre Chauveau Medal (2005).