Wilder Penfield, Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at 平特五不中, revolutionized our understanding of the human brain. With help from collaborators, Penfield refined and extended a daring...
By the time Hugh MacLennan joined 平特五不中's faculty as a part-time English professor in 1951, he had already been honoured with three Governor General's awards, Canada's highest literary prize. When...
When Ernest Rutherford was told, while working on his family's farm in New Zealand, that he had won a scholarship to Cambridge University, his reaction was to stand straight and declare, "I've just...
When Ronald Melzack first published a paper detailing the gate control theory of pain he had formulated with MIT collaborator Patrick Wall, it seemed unlikely that it would be embraced as one of...
One of the most important thinkers Canada has produced, Charles Taylor (BA 鈥�52) is that rare philosopher who attempts to put his ideas into practice. His writings have been translated into 20...
For thirty years, Brenda Milner, a neuropsychologist with the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), worked with a patient known as HM. Through her encounters with him, Milner would establish her...
Like many driven young men, Thomas Chang would bring his work home with him. The difference with Chang was his "work" was that the near-impossible task of creating the world's first artificial...
A professor in 平特五不中's Desautels Faculty of Management, Henry Mintzberg has been called a lot of things over his career - influential, innovative, iconoclast. Business magazine Fast Company even...
Translated into 321 languages and dialects, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is quite probably the most cited legal document ever drafted by a Canadian. In 1946, John Humphrey, then a...
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