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Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. As the largest post-secondary educational institution in the Maritime Provinces it offers a wide array of programs, including a medical program, the Schulich School of Law, and the separate Sexton Campus for architecture...
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Donald Olding Hebb
Donald Olding Hebb (July 22, 1904 – August 20, 1985) was a Canadian psychologist who was influential in the area of neuropsychology, where he sought to understand how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning....
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Axel D. Becke
Axel D. Becke (born June 10, 1953) is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Dalhousie University. He is a leading researcher in the application of Density Functional Theory to molecules.
Becke was born in Esslingen, Germany. He graduated...
Tom Traves
Thomas Donald "Tom" Traves (born 1948) is a Canadian academic professor and administrator. He has been the 10 President of Dalhousie University since 1995.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Traves received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970 from the...
Richard Goldbloom
Richard B. Goldbloom, O.C., M.D., C.M., F.R.C.P.(C) (born December 16, 1924) is a Canadian pediatrician, university professor, and the fifth Chancellor of Dalhousie University.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was educated at Selwyn House School and...
Keith R. Thompson
Keith Thompson is a professor at Dalhousie University with a joint appointment in the Department of Oceanography and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Thompson was trained in the UK and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool...
David M. Cameron
David M. Cameron is a professor emeritus of Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Cameron taught in the areas of Canadian federalism and parliament, and local government. His primary area of expertise in recent years has...
Jonathan Borwein
Jonathan Michael Borwein (born 1951) is a Canadian mathematician noted for his prolific and creative work throughout the international mathematical community. He is a close associate of David H. Bailey, and they have recently been prominent public...
John Fraser
John Fraser is a critic, literary theorist, and cultural analyst, who has been concerned in a variety of ways with relationships between energy and order.
Fraser was born in Church End Finchley, North London, in 1928. In 1948, after two years of...
Benjamin Russell
Benjamin Russell (January 10, 1849 – September 20, 1935) was a Canadian lawyer, professor of law, judge, and politician in the province Nova Scotia.
Born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the son of N. Russell, Russell was educated at the Halifax Grammar...
Archibald MacMechan
Archibald McKellar MacMechan FRSC (June 21, 1862 – 7 August 1933) was a Canadian academic at Dalhousie University and writer. His works deal mainly with Nova Scotia and its history. The Halifax Disaster (Explosion) was an official history of the...
Howard Charles Clark
Howard Charles Clark, F.R.S.C., F.C.I.C. (born 4 September 1929) is a Canadian chemist and university administrator.
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Clark was educated at Takapuna Grammar School and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1951, a...
Arthur Stanley Mackenzie
Arthur Stanley Mackenzie (September 20, 1865 – October 2, 1938) was a Canadian physicist and University President, born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, and educated at Dalhousie University, Halifax, and Johns Hopkins.
He was instructor in mathematics at...
Ransom A. Myers
Dr. Ransom Aldrich "Ram" Myers, Jr. (b. 13 June 1952, Lula, Mississippi - d. 27 March 2007, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a world-renowned marine biologist and conservationist.
He was the son of cotton planter, Ransom Aldrich Myers, Sr. and Fay A....
Robert Merritt
Robert Gray Merritt (1936-June 5, 1999) was a Nova Scotia playwright, film critic, and educator.
Merritt was born in Yonkers, NY, the son of John Gray and Mildred (Rust) Merritt. He was a teacher in Houston and Oklahoma in the 1960s.
From the 1970s...
Margaret Conrad
Margaret Conrad, OC, FRSC (born 1946) is a Canadian historian specializing in the fields of Atlantic Canada and Women's history. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick.
Born in Bridgewater,...
Michael John Keen
Michael John Keen (1935-1991) was an award-winning Canadian geoscientist. From 1961 to 1977, he was a professor at Dalhousie University in the Department of Geology. He chaired the department for several years. From 1977 to 1991, he was with the...
Daniel Murray
Daniel Alexander Murray (1862 – 1934) was a Canadian mathematician.
Murray was born in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, and was educated at Dalhousie and Johns Hopkins universities and in Berlin and Paris. He was successively associate professor of...
Jerome H. Barkow
Jerome H. Barkow is a Canadian anthropologist at Dalhousie University who has made important contributions to the field of evolutionary psychology. He received a B.A. in Psychology from Brooklyn College in 1964 and a Ph.D. in Human Development from...
E. C. Pielou
Evelyn Christine Pielou (born February 20, 1924) is a statistical ecologist and an emeritus professor of mathematical ecology at University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Early in her career, she was a researcher for the Canadian Department of...
George Lawson
George Lawson (October 12, 1827 – November 10, 1895) was a Canadian botanist who is considered the "father of Canadian botany".
Born in Scotland, in 1858, he was appointed the Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Queen's University. He...
James H. Aitchison
James Hermiston Aitchison (b. 1908 in Innerleithen, Scotland — d. 12 July 1994 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) was a Canadian academic and politician and leader of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.
James was the son of James Charles Aitchison...
Clarence Gosse
Clarence Lloyd Gosse (1912 – December 21, 1996) was a Canadian physician and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
Born in Newfoundland, he moved to Nova Scotia when he was ten. He graduated from the medical school of Dalhousie University in 1939....
Peter Borwein
Peter Benjamin Borwein (St. Andrews, Scotland, 1953) is a Canadian mathematician and a professor at Simon Fraser University. He is known as a co-discoverer of the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe algorithm for computing π.
Borwein became interested in number...
Michael J. L. Kirby
Michael J. L. Kirby, OC (born August 5, 1941) is a Canadian politician. He sat in the Canadian Senate as a Liberal representing Nova Scotia. Currently, he is the Chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.
Born in Montreal, Kirby earned a...
Eric Kierans
Eric William Kierans, PC , OC , BA , LL.D (February 2, 1914 – May 9, 2004) was a Canadian economist and politician.
A communist in his youth, Kierens later turned towards commerce. After serving as director of the school of commerce at McGill...
George Grant
George Parkin Grant OC, D.Phil., FRSC (November 13, 1918 - September 27, 1988) was a Canadian philosopher, teacher and political commentator, whose popular appeal peaked in the late 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for his nationalism, political...
C. D. Howe
Clarence Decatur "C. D." Howe, PC (15 January 1886 – 31 December 1960) was a leading Canadian politician. In the 1940s and 1950s, he was known as the "Minister of Everything."
Howe was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. By his own words,...
Robert Rosen
Robert Rosen (27 June 1934, - 28 December 1998, Rochester, New York) was an American theoretical biologist and professor of Biophysics at Dalhousie University.
Robert Rosen was born on June 27, 1934 in Brownsville (a section of Brooklyn), in New...
Abraham Pineo Gesner
Abraham Pineo Gesner, born May 2, 1797 in Cornwallis Township, Nova Scotia, Canada – died April 29, 1864 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was a physician and geologist who invented kerosene and became the primary founder of the modern petroleum industry....
John Thompson
Sir John Sparrow David Thompson, KCMG, PC, QC (November 10, 1845 – December 12, 1894) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, politician, and university professor, who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Canada from December 5, 1892 to December 12, 1894,...
