Canadian nobel prize winners
Fifteen Canadian scientists have won the Nobel Prize:
- Sid Altman, Nobel Chemistry 1989 for Catalytic RNA
- Sir Frederick Banting, Nobel Medicine 1923 for Discovering Insulin
- Willard Boyle, Nobel Physics 2009 for Discovering the Charge Coupled Device
- Bert Brockhouse, Nobel Physics 1994 for Condensed Matter
- Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Chemistry 1971 for Molecular Spectroscopy
- David Hubel, Nobel Medicine 1981 for Mapping the Visual Cortex
- Rudolph Marcus, Nobel Chemistry 1992 for Electron Transfer Reactions (e.g.: Rust)
- Art McDonald, Nobel Physics 2015 for discovering that neutrinos have mass
- James Peebles, Nobel Physics 2019 for discovering the cosmic background radiation and dark matter/energy
- John Polanyi, Nobel Chemistry 1986 for Chemi- luminescence
- Michael Smith, Nobel Chemistry 1993 for Site-Based Mutagenesis
- Donna Strickland, Nobel Physics 2018 for Chirped Pulse Amplification of lasers
- Jack Szostak, Nobel Medicine 2009 for discovery of how Telomeres work
- Henry Taube, Nobel Chemistry 1983 for Electron Transfer Reactions
- Richard Taylor, Nobel Physics 1990 for verifying the Quark Theory