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Dr. John Polanyi is one of few in this list that have won the award as a Canadian. He was born in 1929 in Berlin, Germany. In 1933 he moved to England. He studied at the Manchester University and became Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Research Council Laboratories in Ottawa in the early 50's. He became Lecturer at U of T in 1956, Assistant Professor in 1957, Associate Professor in 1960 and finally Professor in 1962. He got many degrees from a whole bunch of Canadian Universities such as McGill, and Queen's and a few international Universities. In 1974 he was made a Officer of the Order of Canada. 1989 Chemistry Laureate: Sydney Altman for their [with Thomas R. Cech] discovery of catalytic properties of RNA The Nobel Prizes consider Sydney Altman as both an American and as a Canadian. He was born in Montreal in 1936. He thought he would study at McGill but ended up studying physics at MIT. He studied as a graduate student at Columbia in Physics but decided to study biophysics. He latter did some work at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge (UK) that led him to the discovery of "RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA subunit of that enzyme".

1990 Physics Laureate: Richard Taylor for their [with Jerome I. Friedman and Henry W. Kendall] pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics Richard Taylor is another who is considered a Canadian when it comes to Nobel Prizes. He was born in Medicine Hat in 1929. He went to the University of Alberta for Math and Physics. He then went south of the Border and went to Stanford University. In 1958 he went to France to work with a bunch of Physicists and returned to the US in 1961. He went back to work at Stanford and did a lot of experiments which many were the cause of the 1990 Nobel.

1992 Chemistry Laureate: Rudolf Marcus for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems Rudolf Marcus was born in Montreal in 1923 and studied at McGill University in Montreal. He left Canada, of course like all the others, to the University of North Carolina to learn theoretical work with Oscar K. Rice. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1964 and became the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He received many awards and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1970, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973 as well as a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993.

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