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Lawrence Morley played a role in developing and supporting the theory of plate tectonics.

Earth & Environment

When rocks were controversial

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program When Lawrence Morley first attempted to prove that plate tectonics could be solved by a mysterious undersea phenomenon, his theory was met with complete denial. It was not until months later, when two geophysics students at the University of Cambridge proposed a similar idea, that Nature, an eminent science journal, published the ground breaking conclusion. Today, plate tectonics help us to understand our planet’s history even better. The concept

Photograph of Lieutenant-General Andrew McNaughton taken in March of 1942, a few years before he became Canada's Minister of Defence. From the National Archives of Canada - reference number PA-132648.

Engineering & Technology

Andrew McNaughton, outsmarting the enemy

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program During World War I Andrew McNaughton was an artillery specialist and later a counter-battery staff officer of the Canadian Corps. When most thought locating an enemy’s heavy artillery was simply impossible, McNaughton was able to apply scientific methods of artillery warfare to locate enemy guns. He used methods such as sound ranging, which was a way of locating the enemy guns by using the data from the sound of the gunfire. McNaughton’s

Photo of Brenda Milner. Author: Eva Blue.

Long-term legacy for short-term memory

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program In the film, 50 First Dates, Adam Sandler had to win the heart of Drew Barrymore every day because due to an accident, she suffers from amnesia and can’t remember what happened the day before. Brenda Milner, a British neuroscientist who immigrated to Canada, had a similar, but real life experience studying a patient for 30 years who never remembered her. Her patient, Henry Molaison, had surgery to reduce his seizures, but the surgeon removed his

Margaret Newton devoted her life to eradicating wheat rust. She helped Canada’s economy by almost completely reducing revenue loss from the fungus.

Saving Canada’s wheat

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program In 1916, Canada had its worst season for wheat with 200 million dollars in loss from bad crops. The crops were infected with a wheat rust organism also known as a fungus, which made the grain unusable. That same year, Margaret Newton, in her second year of university, was part of the first team to study wheat rust. From then on Newton would devote 25 years of her life to pathology and studying rust spores to save Canada’s wheat. In 1922 Newton was

Ernest McCulloch assisted with the discovery of stem cells.

Proving that stem cells exist: the experiments that changed how we understand the human body

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Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program When Dr. Ernest McCulloch began studying the effects of nuclear radiation on the human body, he was not looking to discover the source of blood cells. But as he examined the mice used in the study, McCulloch noticed small collections of the cells, growing sort of like bacteria. Through ingenuity and hard work, McCulloch and his partner, Dr. James Till, were the first to show the world that we could understand and maybe even use this fundamental

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

Helen Sawyer Hogg devoted her life to the stars and studying globular clusters. She wrote a column for the Toronto Star for 30 years called With The Stars.

The stars belong to everyone

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Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Helen Sawyer Hogg spent a lifetime gazing at the stars. After witnessing her first solar eclipse, her passion for astronomy was unstoppable. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she married Frank Hogg, a Canadian, in 1930. A year later she received her doctorate and the two of them moved to Victoria, B.C. Her husband, also an astronomer, landed a job working at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria. But the Great Depression had hit hard

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

John Alexander Hopps helped to invent the artificial pacemaker to regulate the heart.

Engineering & Technology

Creating a new kind of heart beat

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Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program The pacemaker is a device that helps to stimulate the heart, thus saving lives. But surprisingly, this remarkable discovery was made unintentionally. It began with two Canadian surgeons, Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow and Dr. John C. Callaghan, who were researching cold heart surgery, a method of operating while cooling a body to slow the heart rate. However, their research led the two men to observe that pulses of electrical current from a probe could

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

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