Galt Museum & Archives Exhibits: Canadian Science & Engineering Hall of Fame

This exhibit honours individuals whose outstanding scientific or technological achievements have made a great contribution to society.

Compelling stories of curiosity, challenge, problem-solving and discovery by Canadian scientists, inventors, engineers and medical researchers provide inspiration and insight.

Well-known scientists like Alexander Graham Bell and Sandford Fleming stand beside lesser known but no less significant people like Reginald Fessenden and Maude Abbott.

In all, 45 men and 9 women are featured, of which 8 are Nobel Laureates*.

English/French exhibit labels.

FEB 02 - MAY 19.13

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Featuring...

Maude Abbot 1869-1940

Bertram Neville Brockhouse

* Frederick Banting 1891-1941
Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922
Henry Norman Bethune 1890-1939
J.-Armand Bombardier 1907-1964 design
* Willard Boyle 1924- 2011 CDD
* Bertram Neville Brockhouse
1918-2003 physics - born in Lethbridge, Alberta

Douglas Harold Copp 1915-1998

John William Dawson

Pierre Dansereau 1911-2011 ecology
John William Dawson 1820-1899 geology

Sandford Fleming 1827-1915
Reginald Fessenden 1866-1932
Ursula Martius Franklin 1921-

Gerald Hatch 1922 -
Gerald Heffernan 1919-
* Gerhard Herzberg 1904-1999
James Hillier 1915-2007
John "Jack" A. Hopps 1919-1998

Harold Elford Johns 1915-1998

George J. Klein 1904-1992

George C. Laurence 1905-1987
Hugh Le Caine 1914-1977
Raymond Urgel Lemieux 1920-2000
William Logan 1798-1875

Brenda Milner

Elizabeth "Elsie" MacGill 1905-1980
Chalmers Jack Mackenzie 1888-1984
Frère Marie-Victorin 1885-1944
Ernest McCulloch 1926-2011
J.A.D. McCurdy 1886-1961
Arthur B. McDonald 1943-
Frances Gertrude McGill 1877-1959
Andrew McNaughton 1887-1966
Brenda Milner 1918- neuroscience
Ransom A. Myers 1952-2007

Margaret Newton 1887-1971

J.-Armand Bombardier

Kelvin K. Ogilvie 1942-
Alphonse Ouimet 1908-1988

Harriet Brooks Pitcher

Wilder Penfield 1891-1976 medicine
Harriet Brooks Pitcher 1876-1933 nuclear physics
* John Polanyi 1929-

Hubert Reeves 1932-
* Ernest Rutherford 1871-1937

Charles Edward Saunders 1867-1937
Helen Sawyer Hogg 1905-1993
Charles Robert Scriver 1930-
Louis Siminovitch 1920-
* Michael Smith 1932-2000
E.W.R. "Ned" Steacie 1900-1962*

Richard E. Taylor 1929-
James Till 1931-
Wallace Turnbull 1870-1954

Sidney van den Bergh

Sidney van den Bergh 1929- astronomy

Alice Evelyn Wilson - first female geologist

Alice Evelyn Wilson 1881-1964 first female geologist
John Tuzo Wilson 1908-1993

Discover their contributions in
this Virtual Exhibit

Radar Gun, ca. 1910-20; Galt Museum & Archives 20030028000

One of the featured scientists said: "The need to accurately pinpoint artillery targets, both stationary and moving, led to my invention of the cathode ray direction finder which was the forerunner of RADAR."