Notable Graduates
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Academia & Science
Robert Ackman - Omega-3 fatty acid pioneer (Dalhousie University)
Frederick Banting - Recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the co-discovery of insulin (University of Toronto)
Jill Beck - American dancer, scholar, administrator and educator. She is the 15th and current president of Lawrence University (McGill University)
Dr. Wilfred Bigelow - Pioneered open heart surgery using hypothermia in 1949. Inventor of the pacemaker (Brandon University, University of Toronto)
Robert Birgeneau - Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley (University of Toronto)
Roberta Bondar - First neurologist in space and Canada’s first female astronaut (Guelph University, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto)
Dr. Bertram Brockhouse - Co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics (McMaster University, University of Toronto)
Michael Byers - Director of Duke Law School’s Joint Degree/Master of Laws Program in Comparative and International Law. Currently serves as Canada Research Chair in International Law and Global Politics and is the Academic Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia (University of Saskatchewan, McGill University)
Peter Carr - Head of Quantitative Financial Research at Bloomberg, Mathematical Finance Director at New York University (University of Toronto)
Christopher Chetsanga - Professor University of Zimbabwe, discovered two DNA repair enzymes (University of Toronto)
Janet Currie - Chair of the Department of Economics at Columbia University
Ronald J. Daniels - Provost of University of Pennsylvania (University of Toronto)
Martin Henry Dawson - Pioneer in penicillin therapy (Dalhousie University)
Charles George Drake - Canadian Medical Hall of Fame neurosurgeon (University of Western Ontario)
Robert C. Dynes - Physicist, President of the University of California (University of Western Ontario)
John Kenneth Galbraith - Writer, former professor of economics at Harvard, former U.S Ambassador to India (University of Toronto)
James Gosling - Inventor of the Java programming language (University of Western Ontario)
Donald Olding Hebb - Father of modern neuroscience (Dalhousie University)
James Hillier - Co-inventor of the electron microscope (University of Toronto)
Walter Kohn - 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Pioneer of quantum chemistry (University of Toronto)
Marshall McLuhan - Media guru (University of Manitoba)
Michael Ondaatje - Author (Queen's University)
Dr. James Orbinski - Recipient of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Doctors Without Borders (Trent University, McMaster University, University of Toronto)
Lester B. Pearson - Recipient of 1957 Nobel Peace Prize (University of Toronto)
Steven Pinker - BA'76, is a prominent American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist and popular science writer. Two of his books, How the Mind Works and The Blank Slate, are considered seminal works of modern evolutionary psychology. (McGill University)
Dick Pound - BCom'62, BCL'67, McGill Chancellor has been part of the Olympic movement for more than 40 years as athlete, advocate and IOC Vice-President. He is currently the Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency. (McGill University)
Philip Reny - Economist, Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago (University of Western Ontario)
Arthur Leonard Schawlow - Recipient of 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics, Developer of laser spectroscopy (University of Toronto)
Dr. Myron Scholes - Recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Economics (McMaster University)
Harold Tafler Shapiro - Former president of Princeton University and of the University of Michigan (McGill University)
James T. Shotwell - Pre-eminent historian, Professor of the History of International Relations at Columbia University and president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he helped create the United Nations Charter (University of Toronto)
Martin Shubik - Mathematical economist at Yale University (University of Toronto)
Jean Edward Smith - John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University (University of Toronto)
Kathryn D. Sullivan - NASA astronaut, first American woman to walk in space (Dalhousie University)
Charles Taylor - BA'52, a Companion of the Order of Canada, and one of the most influential political philosophers of our time; writing on subjects as diverse as individual rights and collective responsibilities, artificial intelligence, language and multiculturalism. (McGill University)
Lewis Urry - Inventor of the alkaline battery (University of Toronto)
Ravi Vakil - Four-time William Lowell Putnam Scholar, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University (University of Toronto)
Graham Walker - American Cancer Society Research Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Carleton University)
Paul Weiler - Professor of Law at Harvard University (University of Toronto)
Robert E. Whaley - Inventor of VIX implied volatility index and Professor of Finance at Fuqua School of Business (University of Toronto)
