2011 AWARD RECIPIENTS

Roseann Runte
Chair, Awards Committee

The Royal Society Awards Committee is pleased to announce the medals and awards for this year. All recipients are truly worthy of this honor and deserve our congratulations on their most significant contributions to scholarship.

The members of the committee join me in thanking all those who participated in the nominations process. We recognize the effort and time dedicated by those who put forward the names of their colleagues and who provided impressive and comprehensive files.

We encourage all members, including those who have received awards this year and previous winners, to devote some time to the process this year to ensure that the candidate pool expands and that it is representative of the diversity of our scholarly community.

Suggestions for increasing the number and diversity of applications would be welcomed by members of the committee who request you contact them or the Royal Society secretariat with your ideas.

THE RUTHERFORD MEMORIAL MEDAL IN PHYSICS: For outstanding research in physics.

Freddy A.Cachazo, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

 

THE ALICE WILSON AWARD: For outstanding academic qualifications of a woman who is entering a career in scholarship or research at the postdoctoral level.

May Chazan, Department of Geography and Environment, Carleton University

THE KONRAD ADENAUER RESEARCH AWARD: For the promotion of academic collaboration between Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany, presented to honour the scholar’s entire academic record.

Dennis R. Danielson, Department of English, The University of British Columbia

 

THE INNIS-GÉRIN MEDAL: For a distinguished and sustained contribution to the literature of the social sciences including human geography and social psychology.

Georges Dionne, Canadian Research Chair in Risk Management, HEC Montréal

 

THE SIR JOHN WILLIAM DAWSON MEDAL: For important and sustained contributions in two domains of interest to RSC or in interdisciplinary research.

Keith W. Hipel, Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo

 

THE MCLAUGHLIN MEDAL: For important research of sustained excellence in any branch of medical sciences.

Morley D. Hollenberg, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Calgary

 

THE PIERRE CHAUVEAU MEDAL: For a distinguished contribution to knowledge in the humanities other than Canadian literature and Canadian history.

Robert Ladouceur, School of Psychology, Université Laval

 

THE HENRY MARSHALL TORY MEDAL: For outstanding research in a branch of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, or an allied science.

Arthur B. McDonald, Department of Physics, Queen’s University

 

THE MCNEIL MEDAL: For outstanding ability to promote and communicate science to students and to the public within Canada.

R.J. Dwayne Miller, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

 

THE RUTHERFORD MEMORIAL MEDAL IN CHEMISTRY: For outstanding research in chemistry.

Federico Rosei, Department of Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique

THE MIROSLAW ROMANOWSKI MEDAL: For significant contributions to the resolution of scientific aspects of environmental problems or for important improvements to the quality of an ecosystem in all aspects – terrestrial, atmospheric and aqueous – brought about by scientific means.

Andrew J. Weaver, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria

 

THE WILLET G. MILLER: For outstanding research in any branch of the earth sciences.
Anthony E. Williams-Jones, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University