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Douglas Copp was Canadian biochemist who worked on the Manhattan Project and found a protein to help cure bone disease. Source: The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and Irma Coucill (artist).

Douglas Copp discovers a way to treat osteoporosis

Algonquin college

Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program The Manhattan Project, a top secret military plan to produce the first U.S. atomic bomb, was created in 1942. Only a year later, a young, highly-qualified Canadian biochemist was recruited to the team. Douglas Harold Copp was still in his twenties, but he already held a medical doctor degree with honours from the University of Toronto, as well as a second doctorate in biochemistry. His father was a family physician, which was likely what inspired

Ursula Franklin

Earth & Environment

Scientist promotes peace after her war experience

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program After surviving the Holocaust in Germany, Ursula Martius Franklin used her scientific knowledge to promote peace and prosperity in any way possible. Four years after World War II, Franklin moved to Canada with PhD in experimental physics from Berlin. In 1967 she began working at the University of Toronto in the engineering department and eventually became a full professor in 1984. It was the highest honour the university could give her and she was

Physicist Gerhard Herzberg photographed in London, England in 1952. He believed in pursuing science for the love of it and the desire of expanding knowledge, rather than focusing on its “usefulness.”

Gerhard Herzberg, uncovering the mysteries of science

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Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program At 12 years old, Gerhard Herzberg made a homemade telescope with one of his friends. The two boys ground glass lenses to fit into handmade mounts in a metal tube. When the sky was clear, they would take the streetcar to a park in Hamburg, Germany, and look at the planets through their home-made telescope. This was just the beginning of Herzberg’s long, brilliant career. For him, science was a mystery that he wanted to solve. In 1933 Herzberg was

Bertram Neville Brockhouse, lauréat du prix Nobel de physique de 1994.

Making the universe sing

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Have you ever thought about how scientists figure out with such detail what happens, even at the smallest of scales? No microscope has ever been able to resolve the interactions at the atomic level and scientists can’t even see the invisible lines of energy and magnetism. How did we reveal the structure and patterns of condensed materials like liquids, crystals and proteins? This was made possible with the help of Alberta native Bertram Neville

The charged-couple device: changing how far we can see

The charged-couple device: changing how far we can see

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Today it’s taken for granted that we can document our life using photos and videos. But these quick, effortless snapshots would not have been possible without Willard Boyle’s invention of the charged-couple device, or CCD. The CCD was invented during a brainstorming session between him and his colleague, George Smith, at New Jersey’s Bell Labs. The device is a grid of semiconductors that can be used to collect photons and convert them to

Alexander Graham Bell was highly interested in hearing and speech, a passion which led to his invention of the telephone. Source: Library and Archives Canada. Author: Moffett Studio.

Engineering & Technology

Playing it by ear

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Alexander Graham Bell was interested in both speech and hearing, a pursuit which was likely spurred by the fact that both his mother and wife suffered from hearing loss. Bell first worked with his father, who was a speech therapist, and then took a position in Boston teaching deaf children to speak. One of his methods was to hold a balloon to the chest of his patients so they could hear sound. It was these experiments that led to the invention of

Ernest Rutherford

He "Touched The Ghost of Matter"

McGill University

When Ernest Rutherford became the first person to split ever split the atom, he said that he had “broken the machine and touched the ghost of matter.” But splitting the atom was only one of the historic firsts brought about by his work in chemistry and physics. Rutherford, who was born into a farming family in New Zealand and attended Cambridge University on a scholarship, came to work as a professor at McGill University in 1898. It was there that he opened up the field of atomic physics by

Beyond Nature Vs. Nurture

McGill University

For most of the 20th century, human behaviour was believed to be determined by a mysterious mix of inherited traits and the psychological effects of experience – nature and nurture. Turns out, experiences that your ancestors had can have an effect – positive or negative – on your own genetic make-up. In 1992, two McGill University scientists began a casual exchange of ideas that grew into a ground-breaking new scientific subfield: behavioral epigenetics. Dr. Moshe Szyf, a molecular biologist and

Dr. Thomas Chang

The Dorm Room Where Biotechnology Was Born

McGill University

In 1956, Thomas Chang was studying physiology as an undergraduate at McGill. He embarked on a project to build the world’s first artificial cell – in his dorm room. Using a cheap perfume atomizer, he built thin membranes of plastic that contained hemoglobin, the hardworking compound in red blood cells that moves oxygen through the bloodstream and ushers out carbon dioxide. He became one of the few undergraduate scientists to publish a paper in the prestigious magazine Science. He is credited

Dr. Bernard Belleau

Saving Millions of Lives, Long After His Passing

McGill University

Early treatments of the AIDS virus caused debilitating side-effects in patients. In the mid-1980s the need for an alternative that was easier on patients’ bodies was urgent, and McGill University chemistry professor Dr. Bernard Belleau, along with his colleagues Francesco Bellini and Gervais Dionne, were hard at work on one. Not long before Dr. Belleau’s death in 1989, the team developed 3TC or Lamivudine, which has since been credited with saving the lives of some 2 million people worldwide

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