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Arthur McDonald in 2015. Author: Bengt Nyman.

Keys to the sun

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Neutrinos are tiny particles produced through the decay of radioactive elements. They also hold a key to understanding the sun. Arthur McDonald was the one to recognize this. In 1989, he headed a team at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. The Observatory was a large neutrino detector built two kilometres beneath earth’s surface in a mine in in Sudbury, Ontario. McDonald’s team was able to show that neutrinos have mass. They also helped prove that

Harold Elford Johns asked the NRC to start creating Cobalt-60 isotopes to treat cancer.

The bomb that saves lives

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program In 2009, Ontario’s Chalk River nuclear laboratory closed for maintenance. This meant that the largest producer of medical isotopes in the world was turned off and supply plummeted, causing significant delays in medical treatments. This event underscored how important Canada’s role in nuclear medicine has been ever since physicist Dr. Harold Elford Johns asked the National Research Council to start creating Cobalt-60 isotopes in 1949. Cobalt-60 is

Engineering & Technology

The sackbut, and other surprising inventions by Hugh Le Caine

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Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program Hugh Le Caine is considered one of the “heroes” of electronic music – an unusual reputation for a scientist. Le Caine studied music as a child, and also tried building his own instruments. He envisioned beautiful sounds that he believed could be achieved if new electronic instruments were developed. Later, Le Caine studied physics at Queen’s University, equipping him to apply science to music in remarkable ways. After graduating in 1939 he began

George Lawrence built the world’s second nuclear reactor.

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Harnessing a power: the story of the second nuclear reactor

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program As the curtain of World War II fell over Europe, George C. Laurence began working against the clock to harness the future of energy and warfare. He was going to build the world’s second nuclear reactor. Born in Charlottetown, P.E.I., Laurence graduated from Dalhousie University with a bachelor’s and master’s in physics. After completing his doctorate in England with the greatest minds in nuclear research, Laurence returned to Canada in 1930. He

George. J. Klein.

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Klein, the man who invented everything from the electric wheelchair to the STEM antenna

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program George J. Klein was one of Canada’s most productive inventors of the 20th Century. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, his father, a watch and jewellery store owner, initially sparked Klein’s interest in mechanical design. Klein studied at the University of Toronto and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in applied science in 1928. A year later he was offered a job as a researcher for the National Research Council of Canada. Klein would remain with the NRC

Raymond Urgel Lemieux discovered how to synthesize sugar. Source: University of Alberta.

Raymond Lemieux: leading the carbohydrate revolution

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Raymond Urgel Lemieux may not have climbed a mountain to gain fame, but the chemistry professor’s widely acclaimed discovery of synthesizing sucrose, (table sugar) is largely considered the “Mount Everest of organic chemistry.” In 1953, Lemieux succeeded in synthesizing sugar while at the National Research Council’s Prairie Regional Laboratory. This was remarkable because it allowed us to understand sugar’s molecular, three-dimensional structure

Frere Marie-Victorin created an inventory of all of Québec’s plants in 1935. Author: Albert Dumas. Source: Quebec National Library and Archives, reference number P1000, S4, D83, PM39.

The self-taught botanist who inventoried Quebec’s plants

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program Although he never attained a university degree, Québec-born frère Marie-Victorin (né Conrad Kirouac) became a revered botanist, both in North America and in Europe. Marie-Victorin discovered his passion for botany during a fight with tuberculosis in 1903, and began teaching himself everything he needed to know. He read over 40 years’ worth of scientific journals on the subject. In 1913, he traveled to the municipality of Témiscouata in Quebec

Electrons are a scientist’s best friend

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Most Canadians have looked through a light microscope in their high school science class. They got to magnify particles on plates that were invisible to the naked eye. But those microscopes have limits. Light rays only magnify up to 2,000 times. Today, electron microscopes allow two million times of magnification because electron waves are shorter, leading to higher enhancement and resolution. The first practical electron microscope came about

Sylvia Fedoruk’s ground breaking work in physics has brought a lot of pride to Canada and to the science community of Saskatchewan.

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Adventures in radiation

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Most of us have been touched by cancer in one way or another. It’s also likely that radiation treatment was used in helping with recovery. Fifty per cent of cancer patients have undergone radiation treatment. This is because radiation attacks the DNA of cancer cells so they can’t reproduce. Canadian scientist Sylvia Fedoruk devoted her life’s work to helping people with radiation techniques. Scientists have been using radiation to fight cancer

Reginald Fessenden not only invented a way to transmit the human voice, but made the very first radio broadcast.

Reginald Fessenden, the first voice of radio

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Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program The first radio broadcast in history was on Christmas Eve in 1906. Crackling slightly, but still audible, the voice belonged to Reginald Fessenden, also known as the father of radio. He was born in Knowlton, Quebec, but his family moved to Ontario not long afterwards. Growing up, one of Fessenden’s heroes was Thomas Edison. And, a few years later, due to unstoppable determination and a knack for wiring, he even ended up assisting Edison at his

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