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Saving one of Canada’s most valuable natural resources

Saving one of Canada’s most valuable natural resources

University of Alberta

Canola is one of Canada’s most valuable natural resources and the most profitable commodity for Canadian farmers, and worth about $20 billion a year to Canada’s economy. But in the 1980’s, a disease called blackleg threatened to destroy Canada’s canola industry. Plant scientist, Gary Stringam’s innovative plant breeding research helped save Canada’s canola industry. Stringham’s plant breeding research at the University of Alberta resulted in the development of several new canola varieties, one

Josie Gonzalez and the National Roundtable on the Environment

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Josie Gonzalez and the National Roundtable on the Environment

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21

Josie Gonzalez is from the Philippines. She wanted to be a doctor, but her father thought that was not practical, so she became a Chemical Engineer and worked for the Forest Products Research Institute at the University of the Philippines before coming to Canada. She completed graduate studies in Forestry in the United States, and eventually came to Canada and worked with the federal Department of Agriculture and Forestry (and later Forintek when it was privatized). She also worked as an

Canadian Museum of History, 2006.41.5

Engineering & Technology

Contempra telephone

Canadian Museum of History

For many years, Canadians depended on American designs for their telephones. Northern Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of Bell Canada, used designs licensed from Western Electric, which was associated with AT&T. When the agreement expired in 1966, young industrial designer John Tyson and his team at Northern Electric developed the Contempra phone: a telephone that innovated in both its shape and colour. Unlike the familiar curvilinear designs of the time, Tyson’s phone was angular, with

3D Model of the Periodic Table [Ingenium 1995.0335]

3D Model of the Periodic Table

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Canadian scientist Dr Don Stedman conceived and built this 3-D model of the periodic table of elements in 1947. The periodic table is a map of the universe’s building blocks — elements such as hydrogen and oxygen, which form water. The table, instantly recognizable even by those unfamiliar with chemistry, shows the known elements arranged according to their atomic number, which is the number of protons in an atom’s nucleus. Scientists have been tinkering with the periodic table’s form ever since

Reaction chamber and infrared spectrometer used by John Polanyi and Kenneth Cashion in their study of chemical reactions. Source: Ingenium 1991.0395

Reaction Cell

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The reaction cell emitted light — and led to the first chemical laser. This glass reaction cell helped establish the field of reaction dynamics and won Canadian scientist John Polanyi a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986. Custom-made at the University of Toronto, the cell allowed Polanyi and graduate student Kenneth Cashion to examine the behaviour of atoms during chemical reactions in experiments beginning in 1956. They discovered a phenomenon called infrared chemiluminescence, the emission of

Ernest Rutherford at 21. Source: Wellcome Library.

Ernest Rutherford, a champion in Canadian physics

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics, came to work as a professor at McGill University when he was 27 years old. He was recognized for investigating the disintegration of elements as well as the chemistry of radioactive substances, winning the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1908. He was the first person to win the award for work completed in Canada. However, Rutherford’s greatest achievement as a physicist did not come until two years

Michael Smith was a Canadian biochemist and businessman.

Michael Smith brings Canada to the forefront of genetic technology

Algonquin college

Bryson Masse At age 11, Michael Smith did remarkably well in his eleven plus exam – a test administered in England that separates the top 20 per cent of students from the rest. Those in this small category could receive a higher academic education that the others could not. Smith’s option was the Arnold School for Boys. But going to this school meant losing his old friends, eating war-time lunches and playing sports he had no interest in. Luckily for us, Smith did choose to go – a move that sent

James Till contributed in discovering stem cells.

James Till and the discovery of stem cells

Algonquin college

Rebecca Meijer Algonquin College Journalism Program In 1962, James Till changed the face of modern medicine when he – along with his colleague Ernest McCulloch – discovered the existence of stem cells. Finding stem cells have opened many scientific doors, completely changing the way that leukemia is treated, and influencing cancer research. Even decades after their discovery, scientists are still exploring the full potential of stem cell research. A biophysicist from Yale University, Till was

Richard E. Taylor was one of the first to discover the smallest matter known to man: quarks.

Big things come in small matter

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program World War II brought military bases and a prisoner of war camp to the town of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Richard E. Taylor was just 10 when the war started, and it gave him a new perspective on the world. When the atomic bombs were dropped in Japan, the power of the blast made him very interested in the ingenuity of the physicist. He became fascinated by explosives, unfortunately blowing off three of his fingers in an experiment. But Taylor was

Charles E. Saunders, was a chemistry professor who graduated from the University of Toronto.

A pioneer in plant breeding

Algonquin college

Shawna O’Neill Algonquin College Journalism Program Sir Charles Edward Saunders is credited for breeding the most popular strain of wheat in Canada: Marquis Wheat. This early-ripening durable wheat allowed farmers to grow farther north, leading to Canada’s reputable hard spring wheat. Derived from a cross between two wheats: Hard Red Calcutta and Red Fife, the Marquis Wheat was meticulously crafted by Saunders after a couple years of research and growing. At the time, plant breeding was a

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