Canadian Scientists and InventorsMore than 200 years of profiles and discoveries that range from apples to BlackBerrys, from steamships to jet engines, from vaccines to lasers are covered. They reflect the significant milestones in 5 major areas - communication, discovery, electronics, health, and transportation. |
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People Who Shaped Our World | 7 |
Research Scientist RNA Research | 10 |
Medical Researchers Discovery of Insulin | 14 |
Inventor Telephone and Transportation Technologies | 20 |
Astronomer Discovery of the First Black Hole | 24 |
Inventor The Snowmobile | 28 |
Astronaut Neurobiologist Medical Research Space Exploration | 31 |
Research Scientist Invention of Neutron Spectrometer | 35 |
Inventor The BlackBerry | 116 |
Research Scientist Electron Transfer in Chemical Reactions | 121 |
Research Scientist Theory of Enzyme Kinetics | 125 |
Research Scientist Commercial Production of Helium | 130 |
Inventor Sport of Basketball | 135 |
Innovator Chiropractics | 137 |
Inventor Screw Propeller for Ships | 141 |
Research Scientist Chemical Laser Research | 145 |
Research Scientist Research in Radioactivity Codiscovery of Radon | 39 |
Inventor The Electron Microscope | 44 |
Entrepreneur Commercial Transatlantic Steamship Travel | 48 |
Inventors Halftone Printing Process and Photojournalism | 53 |
Research Scientist Mass Production of Polio Vaccine | 59 |
Inventor Newsprint from Wood Fibres | 66 |
Inventor Radio and Electronic Communication Devices | 70 |
Inventor Transcontinental Railway Standard Time System | 75 |
Design Engineer Avro Arrow FighterInterceptor Aircraft | 80 |
Inventor Kerosene and the Petrochemical Industry | 87 |
Research Scientist Molecular Research of Free Radicals | 91 |
Inventor The WalkieTalkie | 95 |
Astronomer Specializing in Variable Stars | 99 |
Medical Researcher How Visual Information is Received by the Brain | 102 |
Medical Researcher Hormones for Cancer Treatment | 105 |
Research Scientist Cobalt Bomb for Cancer Treatment | 109 |
Medical Researcher Genetic Code of DNA Molecule | 113 |
Research Scientist Development of Marquis Wheat | 149 |
Research Scientist Laser Spectroscopy CoInvention of the Laser | 154 |
Research Scientist Mutations of DNA | 158 |
Inventor Transmission of Photographs by Radio Waves | 163 |
Research Scientist Genetics Environmental Activism | 168 |
Research Scientist Electron Transfer in Metals | 172 |
Research Scientist Exploring the Structure of the Atom | 176 |
Inventor Variable Pitch Aircraft Propeller | 180 |
Land Surveyor Scientist Discovery of Dinosaurs Bones | 185 |
Inventor Alkaline Battery | 191 |
Inventor Worlds First Drilled Oil Well | 194 |
Inventor Acetylene and the Carbide Industry | 198 |
Inventor Electric Streetcar and the Electrical Industry | 204 |
Discoveries by Theme | 209 |
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