Science & Technology

  

Canadian research is a dynamic force linking decade to decade with investigation and discovery. Researchers throughout Canada arenumbered among the world's best. The history of research in Canada is couched in our rich natural resources. The Geological Survey ofCanada was established in 1842 as our first scientific agency. The great expanse of our nation demands transportation and communicationstechnology. These are fields in which we have led from the first long distance telephone call to the first use of domestic communicationssatellites to contemporary communications innovation. Our expertise in transportation extends from aerospace research, from constructionfor adverse weather to surface transportation technology.

Canada's scientific and engineering visionaries inlcude people such as Sir Frederick Banting and Nobel Prize winners, Dr.'s Gerhard Herzberg, John Polanyi, Rudy Marcus and Bertram Brockhouse, whose pioneering work at the forefront of their fields helped establish Canada's reputation for scientific excellence and creativity. Canadian contributions to scientific and engineering discovery are significant: from a vaccine for tuberculosis in the 1930s to, more recently, trials for a conjugate vaccine for infant meningitis using an innovative modification of a polysaccharide carrier; from the development of radar during the Second World War to sophisticated three dimensional acoustic arrays for remote sensing using sound propagation theory; and from a 1971 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Dr. Gerhard Herzberg for his work in identifying molecules in space to the distinguished research investigating the kinetics and mechanisms of free radical reactions and their biological relevance in human health and disease which has just won distinguished scientist, Dr. Keith Ingold, the prestigious 1998 Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering... more.

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