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