Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame explained

The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, was located at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, honoured Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to society in science and engineering. It also promoted role models to encourage young Canadians to pursue careers in science, engineering and technology.^[1] The hall included a permanent exhibition, a traveling exhibition,^[2] a virtual gallery, and events and programming to celebrate inductees.^[3] In 2017, the hall of fame was closed down.^[4]

History

The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame was established in 1991 through a joint partnership by the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Industry Canada and the Association of Partners in Education, to mark the NRC's 75th anniversary.^{[5] [6]} The hall became a major feature of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, and has become a part of the museum's permanent Innovation Canada exhibition.

Induction Process

The museum used an open process for nomination of new members.^[7] A selection committee reviewed nominations annually. Nominees must have met the following criteria:

• They must have contributed in an exceptional way to the advancement of science and engineering in Canada;
• Their work must have brought great benefits to society and their communities as a whole;
• They must possess leadership qualities that can serve as an inspiration to young Canadians to pursue careers in science, engineering or technology.

In April 2015, two members of the selection committee, Judy Illes and Dr. Catherine Anderson, resigned over concerns that, for the second year in a row, there were no female candidates in the list of finalists.^[8]

Members

The following people have been inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame^[9] (listed by date of birth):

• William Edmond Logan (1798–1875)
• John William Dawson (1820–1899)
• Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
• Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932)
• Charles Edward Saunders (1867–1937)
• Maude Abbott (1869–1940)
• Wallace Rupert Turnbull (1870–1954)
• Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)
• Harriet Brooks Pitcher (1876–1933)
• Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959)
• Alice Evelyn Wilson (1881–1964)
• Frère Marie-Victorin (1885–1944)
• John A.D. McCurdy (1886–1961)
• Andrew McNaughton (1887–1966)
• Margaret Newton (1887–1971)
• Chalmers Jack Mackenzie (1888–1984)
• Henry Norman Bethune (1890–1939), inducted in 2010 ^[10]
• Frederick Banting (1891–1941)
• Wilder Penfield (1891–1976)
• E.W.R. "Ned" Steacie (1900–1962)
• George J. Klein (1904–1992), inducted in 1995^[11]
• Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999)
• Elizabeth "Elsie" MacGill (1905–1980)
• George C. Laurence (1905–1987), inducted in 2010^{[12] [13]}
• Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905–1993)
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907–1964)
• Alphonse Ouimet (1908–1988)
• John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993)
• Arthur Porter (1910-2010)
• Pierre Dansereau (1911–2011), inducted in 2001^[14]
• M. Vera Peters (1911-1993)
• Hugh Le Caine (1914–1977)
• Douglas Harold Copp (1915–1998)
• Harold Elford Johns (1915–1998), inducted in 2000^[15]
• James Hillier 1915-2007, inducted in 2002 ^[16]
• Bertram Neville Brockhouse 1918-2003
• Brenda Milner 1918-
• John "Jack" A. Hopps 1919-1998
• Gerald Heffernan (1919–2007)
• James Milton Ham (1920–1997)
• Raymond Urgel Lemieux (1920–2000)
• Lawrence Morley 1920-2013
• Louis Siminovitch (1920–)
• Ursula Franklin (1921–2016)
• Gerald Hatch (1922–2014)
• Willard Boyle (1924–2011), inducted in 2005^{[17] [18]}
• Ernest McCulloch (1926–2011), inducted in 2010^[19]
• Sylvia Fedoruk (1927–2012)
• Sidney van den Bergh (1929-)
• John Polanyi (1929–)
• Richard E. Taylor (1929–), inducted in 2008^{[20] [21]}
• Vernon Burrows (1930–)
• Charles Robert Scriver (1930–), inducted in 2001
• James Till (1931–), inducted in 2010
• Michael Smith (1932–2000)
• Hubert Reeves (1932–)
• Kelvin K. Ogilvie (1942-)
• Arthur B. McDonald (1943–)
• Ransom A. Myers (1952–2007)

External links

• Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame official webpage. Canada Science and Technology Museum official website

Notes and References

1. http://sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/about/hallfame/u_cr_e.cfm Criteria: Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
2. http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/whatson/travel-exhibits-hall-of-fame.cfm Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame Travelling Exhibition
3. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-canadian-science-and-engineering-hall-of-fame The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
4. News: Semeniuk . Ivan . Finally, Ottawa's shrine to Canadian invention looks the part . May 10, 2022 . The Globe and Mail . November 12, 2017.
5. Andrew H. Wilson, Recognition of Engineers and Engineering Achievements, The Cedargrove Series of Discourses, Memoirs and Essays, The Engineering Institute of Canada, 2009.
6. http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/about/hallfame/u_s_e.cfm The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: History
7. http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/about/nominat.cfm The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: Making A Nomination
8. News: Top Canadian scientists resign over lack of female nominees . . April 11, 2015 . Schwartz . Zane.
9. https://ingeniumcanada.org/scitech/canadian-science-and-engineering-hall-of-fame.php The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: The Hall
10. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/7168004.html Dr. Bethune inducted into Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
11. http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/about/hallfame/u_i19_e.cfm The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: George J. Klien
12. http://www.aecl.ca/NewsRoom/News/Press-2010/101021.htm George C. Laurence Inducted into Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
13. http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/mediacentre/releases/news_release.cfm?news_release_id=377 Former Atomic Energy Control Board President inducted into Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
14. http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/newsrel/inductees01.cfm Pierre Dansereau, Charles Scriver Inducted Into The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
15. http://www.lightsource.ca/media/cobalt.php Former U of S 'Cobalt-60' Physicist Inducted into Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
16. http://www.jameshillierfoundation.com/biography.html The Biography of Dr. James Hillier
17. Randall Brooks and Helen Graves Smith, Willard Boyle: New Inductee to the Canadian Science & Engineering Hall of Fame, Cassiopeia No. 128 (2006), Canadian Astronomical Society.
18. http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2011/05/remembering-nobel-laureate-willard-boyle-1924-2011/ Remembering Nobel laureate Willard Boyle: 1924-2011
19. http://scnblog.typepad.com/scnblog/2010/10/till-and-mcculloch-inducted-into-science-and-engineering-hall-of-fame.html Till and McCulloch inducted into Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
20. http://www.archives.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article/2008/04/9286.html Science Hall of Fame inducts U of A Nobel Laureate
21. http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/cityplus/story.html?id=5b908149-e85e-414f-a811-dc267801207b Nobel Prize winning U of A grad to be inducted into hall of fame