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From: mcanally@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp (David Scott McAnally)
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Subject: Re: Great Canadian Scientists
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Date: 24 May 91 09:20:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: shell@fornax.UUCP's message of 22 May 91 19:15:16 GMT

In article <2734@fornax.UUCP> shell@fornax.UUCP (Barry Shell) writes:
 >
 >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
 > 

It would be nice if someone did something similar about Great
Australian Scientists.

David McAnally
kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp

"Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp."
	King of Swamp Castle: Monty Python and the Holy Grail