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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

Dr. William Osler

Sending Medical Students Into "An Uncharted Sea"

McGill University

Imagine being treated by a newly minted doctor who had never treated a flesh-and-blood patient before. Imagine a young doctor whose had only read about medicine in books. Until Dr. William Osler began teaching medicine at McGill University, that’s how doctors learned their practice: from books. Dr. Osler began the now-standard practice of residencies – in which medical students are paired with experienced doctors and treat patients. “To study medicine without books is to sail an uncharted sea,”

John Peters Humphrey

Social Science & Culture

His Words Became The "Conscience of Mankind"

McGill University

John Peters Humphrey, lawyer and law professor at McGill University, authored the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the document commissioned by the United Nations and adopted as its mission statement in 1948. It’s widely considered one of the single most influential documents of the 20th century, referred to as “the conscience of mankind” by Pope John Paul II. But for over a decade, a co-author, Rene Cassin, was given full credit as its creator – even winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968

The Islamic Studies Library at McGill University

Social Science & Culture

A Pioneer In Cross-Cultural Understanding

McGill University

Long before the relationship between the Middle East and the West became a matter of global importance, a man named Wilfrid Cantwell Smith founded the continent’s first Center for Islamic Studies, at McGill University. His approach was decades ahead of its time. He believed that the study of the Islamic world would not be possible by non-Muslims unless there were scholars from the Muslim world working alongside them. He wanted to create an instutite where Muslim scholars could feel as much at

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. Margaret Lock

Social Science & Culture

Medicine Isn't Just Science - It's Culture

McGill University

Sometimes the person best equipped to explain what goes on in a doctor’s office isn’t a doctor, it’s an anthropologist. Dr. Margaret Lock started her academic career in biochemistry, but after a visit to Japan she was compelled to switch disciplines and got a PhD in anthropology. She went on to start one of the world’s preeminent Medical Anthropology programs, at McGill University. Her work – on menopause, women and aging, organ harvesting, and Alzheimer’s disease, among many others subjects –

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

Dr. Roger Tomlinson

Road Transportation

Google Maps Was Born In The Wild

McGill University

In the 1960s, a geographer named Roger Tomlinson was surveying potential sites for a paper mill in Kenya. He needed to consider the locations of monkey populations and elephant migration routes, topography and soil types, and he developed a computer application that would save him the headache of logging all the landscape features manually. He took the resulting technology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) home to Canada, where he worked with the Canadian government to use GIS to map the

Canadian National Railway “6400/U4A” Locomotive

Rail Transportation

Canadian National Railway "6400/U4A" Locomotive

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canadian National Railways (CNR) designed and manufactured five 6400 series locomotives in the 1930s. Looking for ways to improve smoke clearance around the locomotive cabs, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) conducted wind tunnel tests throughout the design phase. These tests led the NRC to manufacture an entirely new style of locomotive, one that was more aerodynamic and semi-streamlined. With the intention of being used for passenger service, this

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