The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, was located at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, honoured Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to society in science and engineering. It also promoted role models to encourage young Canadians to pursue careers in science, engineering and technology.Criteria: Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame , Canada Science and Technology Museum. The hall included a permanent exhibition, a traveling exhibition,Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame Travelling Exhibition , Canada Science and Technology Museum. a virtual gallery, and events and programming to celebrate inductees.The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, The Canadian Encyclopedia. In 2017, the hall of fame was closed down.
History The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame was established in 1991 through a joint partnership by the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Industry Canada and the Association of Partners in Education, to mark the NRC's 75th anniversary.Andrew H. Wilson, Recognition of Engineers and Engineering Achievements , The Cedargrove Series of Discourses, Memoirs and Essays, The Engineering Institute of Canada, 2009.The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: History , Canada Science and Technology Museum. The hall became a major feature of the Canada Science and Technology Museum, and has become a part of the museum's permanent Innovation Canada exhibition.
Induction process
The museum used an open process for nomination of new members.The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: Making A Nomination , Canada Science and Technology Museum. A selection committee reviewed nominations annually. Nominees must have met the following criteria: They must have contributed in an exceptional way to the advancement of science and engineering in Canada; Their work must have brought great benefits to society and their communities as a whole; They must possess leadership qualities that can serve as an inspiration to young Canadians to pursue careers in science, engineering or technology.
In April 2015, two members of the selection committee, Judy Illes and Dr. Catherine Anderson, resigned over concerns that, for the second year in a row, there were no female candidates in the list of finalists.
Members The following people have been inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of FameThe Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: The Hall , Canada Science and Technology Museum. (listed by date of birth):
William Edmond Logan (1798–1875) John William Dawson (1820–1899) Sandford Fleming (1827–1915) Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922) Reginald Fessenden (1866–1932) Charles Edward Saunders (1867–1937) Maude Abbott (1869–1940) Wallace Rupert Turnbull (1870–1954) Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) Harriet Brooks Pitcher (1876–1933) Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959) Alice Evelyn Wilson (1881–1964) Frère Marie-Victorin (1885–1944) John A.D. McCurdy (1886–1961) Andrew McNaughton (1887–1966) Margaret Newton (1887–1971) Chalmers Jack Mackenzie (1888–1984) Henry Norman Bethune (1890–1939), inducted in 2010Dr. Bethune inducted into Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, People's Daily Online, October 15, 2010. Frederick Banting (1891–1941) Wilder Penfield (1891–1976) E.W.R. "Ned" Steacie (1900–1962) George J. Klein (1904–1992), inducted in 1995The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame: George J. Klien , Canada Science and Technology Museum. Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999) Elizabeth "Elsie" MacGill (1905–1980) George C. Laurence (1905–1987), inducted in 2010George C. Laurence Inducted into Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame , AECL News Room, October 21, 2010.Former Atomic Energy Control Board President inducted into Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame , Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, October 25, 2010. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905–1993) Joseph-Armand Bombardier (1907–1964) Alphonse Ouimet (1908–1988) John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) Arthur Porter (1910-2010) Pierre Dansereau (1911–2011), inducted in 2001Pierre Dansereau, Charles Scriver Inducted Into The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame , News Release, Canada Science and Technology Museum, November 8, 2001. M. Vera Peters (1911–1993) Hugh Le Caine (1914–1977) Douglas Harold Copp (1915–1998) Harold Elford Johns (1915–1998), inducted in 2000Former U of S 'Cobalt-60' Physicist Inducted into Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame , Canadian Light Source, December 1, 2000 James Hillier 1915–2007, inducted in 2002The Biography of Dr. James Hillier , The James Hillier Foundation, 2009. Bertram Neville Brockhouse 1918–2003 Brenda Milner 1918– John "Jack" A. Hopps 1919–1998 Gerald Heffernan (1919–2007) James Milton Ham (1920–1997) Raymond Urgel Lemieux (1920–2000) Lawrence Morley 1920–2013 Louis Siminovitch (1920–) Ursula Franklin (1921–2016) Gerald Hatch (1922–2014) Willard Boyle (1924–2011), inducted in 2005Randall Brooks and Helen Graves Smith, Willard Boyle: New Inductee to the Canadian Science & Engineering Hall of Fame, Cassiopeia No. 128 (2006), Canadian Astronomical Society.Remembering Nobel laureate Willard Boyle: 1924-2011, McGill Reporter, McGill University, May 18, 2011. Ernest McCulloch (1926–2011), inducted in 2010Till and McCulloch inducted into Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, Stem Cell Network, October 21, 2010. Sylvia Fedoruk (1927–2012) Sidney van den Bergh (1929–) John Polanyi (1929–) Richard E. Taylor (1929–), inducted in 2008Science Hall of Fame inducts U of A Nobel Laureate , ExpressNews, University of Alberta, April 24, 2008.Nobel Prize winning U of A grad to be inducted into hall of fame , The Edmonton Journal, April 24, 2008. Vernon Burrows (1930–) Charles Robert Scriver (1930–), inducted in 2001 James Till (1931–2025), inducted in 2010 Michael Smith (1932–2000) Hubert Reeves (1932–) Kelvin K. Ogilvie (1942–) Arthur B. McDonald (1943–) Ransom A. Myers (1952–2007)
References
External links Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame official webpage. Canada Science and Technology Museum official website