Xref: utzoo can.general:6871 sci.med:25183 sci.math:17633 sci.physics:19453 sci.chem:3924 sci.bio:5009 misc.wanted:15320 news.misc:6568 Path: utzoo!unixhub!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!fornax!shell From: shell@fornax.UUCP (Barry Shell) Newsgroups: can.general,sci.med,sci.math,sci.physics,sci.chem,sci.bio,misc.wanted,news.misc Subject: Great Canadian Scientists Message-ID: <2734@fornax.UUCP> Date: 22 May 91 19:15:16 GMT Reply-To: shell@lccr.UUCP () Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, B.C., Canada Lines: 37 I am planning to write a new book called "Great Canadian Scientists." Please forward your nominations to me: shell@cs.sfu.ca The rules are that the person must be a Canadian citizen. They don't have to be born in Canada or even live in Canada, but they must have (or have had, if they are dead) Canadian citizenship while they are/were great Canadian scientists. Some obvious names that come to mind are Banting (Insulin), Hertsberg ('71 Nobel Prize, chemistry), Polanyi ('86 Nobel prize: chemiluminescence). I'm not quite sure what should constitute greatness, and there may be a gray area here. If you have any ideas on criteria for greatness, I would be pleased to hear them. In any event, please nominate people even if you are not sure they are great. I would like as big a list as possible. Please give me a name and email address, phone number or mail address, so that I can contact the person. If you don't know any of the above, then give me their last known whereabouts. Also please give your reason for why you think the person should be considered a great Canadian scientist. After I have the list, I will choose about ten of the most interesting ones and do in-depth biographies of those individuals in the style of Tracy Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine." The rest of the great Canadian scientists will appear in an appedix with one paragraph biographies. If you have any other ideas about this project, I am interested to hear them. From time to time I will post the results of the project to Barry Shell 604-876-5790 4692 Quebec St. Vancouver, B.C. V5V 3M1 Canada shell@cs.sfu.ca