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The establishment in 1975, of the Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics by the National Research Council of Canada consolidated the work of Canadian astronomy at the institution and this new organization became the prime mover for the construction of the new Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, on Mount Mauna Kea in Hawaii, that saw first light in 1979.
Jeffrey Karp (born 1975) [1] is a Canadian biomedical engineer working as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the principal faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Affiliate Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
Canada was the third country to design and construct a satellite after the Soviet Union and the United States, with the 1962 Alouette 1 launch. [22] Canada is a participant in the International Space Station (ISS), and is a pioneer in space robotics, having constructed the Canadarm , Canadarm2 and Dextre robotic manipulators for the ISS and ...
Madeleine M. Joullié (born 1927), French-American-Brazilian organic chemist and first woman to have an American tenure track position in organic chemistry Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), African American organic chemist who was a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.
Emily Wilson (born 1970) is a former editor of New Scientist magazine. Appointed in early 2018, she was the first woman to become editor in the publication's 62-year history. [1] Wilson was previously assistant editor of The Guardian newspaper and editor of Guardian Australia. She left her post at New Scientist to write full time in 2024. [2]
SNOLAB is a Canadian underground science laboratory specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics. Located 2 km below the surface in Vale's Creighton nickel mine near Sudbury, Ontario, SNOLAB is an expansion of the existing facilities constructed for the original Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) solar neutrino experiment.
Ronald James Gillespie, CM FRSC FRS [1] (August 21, 1924 – February 26, 2021) [2] was a British chemist specializing in the field of molecular geometry, who arrived in Canada after accepting an offer that included his own laboratory with new equipment, which post-World War II Britain could not provide.
She spoke about the first era of stars at the 2018 New Scientist Live. [18] [19] Chapman brought a successful lawsuit against University College London for sexual harassment through the law firm of Ann Olivarius. She settled the case for £70,000 and then campaigned against the use of gag-orders or "non-disclosure settlements."