Canadian Nobel Winners
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.
1993 Chemistry Laureate: Dr. Michael Smith for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleiotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies Dr. Michael Smith was born in England in 1932. More precisely in Blackpool. He first came to Canada in 1956 to work at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver where he did all his studies and work which brought him his Chemistry Nobel.
1994 Physics Laureate: Bertram Brockhouse for the development of neutron spectroscopy. Bertram Brockhouse was born in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1918. He was very involved with the CCF (Left wing party) and joined the Navy during the Second World War. After the war, he went to the University of British Columbia. He enrolled in Physics and Mathematics. He latter went to the University of Toronto (U of T and McGill were the only two Universities to give Ph.D.s). He became Professor, in 1962, at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
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