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University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Canadian public research university with campuses in the Greater Vancouver area and in Kelowna, British Columbia. The main campus in the Greater Vancouver area is located in the University Endowment Lands on Point Grey, a peninsula about 10 km from...
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John Davidson
John Davidson (1878 – 1970) was a notable Scottish-Canadian botanist. Born in Aberdeen, he worked at the University of Aberdeen (1893 – 1911) before being appointed the first Provincial Botanist of British Columbia. Davidson established an herbarium...
Carl Wieman
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist at the University of British Columbia and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his production in 1995 with Eric Allin Cornell, the first true Bose-Einstein condensate.
Wieman was born...
Henry C. Gunning
Henry Cecil Gunning, FRSC (September 9, 1901 - 1991) was a Canadian geologist and academic. A mineral was named in his honour.
Gunning was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. At the age of six his family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. His...
Mark Wilkinson
Dr. Wilkinson earned his Bachelors degree in genetics from the University of Alberta in 1990, with an emphasis on developmental genetics. In 1996 he received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Botany studying the...
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Rudolf Vrba
Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg (September 11, 1924–March 27, 2006) was a Slovak-Canadian professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. He came to public attention in 1944 when, in April that year, he and a friend,...
Stephen Toope
Stephen J. Toope, (born 1958) is the President of the University of British Columbia. He assumed the presidential post on July 1, 2006 for a term of five years. He was formerly the president of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.
A scholar...
Richard J. Pearson
Richard Joseph Pearson (born May 2, 1938) is a Canadian archaeologist.
He grew up in Toronto and Oakville, Ontario and graduated with a Bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in 1960. Richard Pearson studied at the University of Hawaii, and...
Dale Kinkade
M. Dale Kinkade (1933-2004) was a linguist known especially for his work on Salishan languages.
Born July 18, 1933, in Hartline, Washington, he graduated from Peshastin High School in 1950. He received his B.A. from the University of Washington in...
Martha Piper
Martha C. Piper, OC, OBC was the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia. She held the position from 1997 until 2006, and was the 11th person and the first woman to do so. Having been born in Lorain, Ohio, she is also the...
Joel Bakan
Joel Conrad Bakan (born 1959) is a Canadian lawyer and writer.
Born in Lansing, Michigan and raised for most of his childhood in East Lansing, Michigan where his parents, Paul and Rita Bakan, were both long-time professors in psychology at Michigan...
Meryn Cadell
Meryn Cadell is a Canadian writer and performance artist. He currently teaches the writing of song lyrics and libretto in the Creative Writing Program at University of British Columbia.
Cadell, a female-to-male transsexual, achieved prominence as a...
Bill Unruh
William George Unruh (born August 28, 1945) is a Canadian physicist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, who discovered the Unruh effect. Unruh was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba in...
David Suzuki
David Takayoshi Suzuki, CC, OBC, (born March 24, 1936), is a Japanese Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics...
Lalith Gamage
Lalith Gamage, MBCS, MIEE is a Professor, founding CEO and the current president of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology the largest Technology institute in Sri Lanka. A leading Sir Lankan academic in the field of Computer Science, Prof...
John Milsum
John H. Milsum (1924) is a Canadian control engineer, who was Professor and first Director at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the McGill University in Montreal, and a Professor at the University of British Columbia. Milsum is known for his...
Susan Wood
Susan Joan Wood (August 22, 1948-November 12, 1980 was a Canadian author, critic, and science fiction fan, born in Ottawa, Ontario.
Wood discovered science fiction fandom while she was studying at Carleton University in the 1960s. Wood met fellow...
Cyril Belshaw
Cyril Shirley Belshaw (born 1921 in New Zealand) is an anthropologist, and was professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) from 1953 until his retirement in 1987. He was also the long-time editor of the journal Current...
Evan Adams
Evan Tlesla Adams (born November 15, 1966) is a Canadian actor, playwright and medical doctor. A Coast Salish from the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, British Columbia, he is best known internationally for his roles in the films of Sherman...
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...
Jasper Wood
Jasper Wood (born April 29, 1974 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian concert violinist.
Jasper Wood was born into a musical family of six brothers and sisters in Moncton, New Brunswick. His brothers are Craig and Derek, His sisters, Anya,...
John Beatty
John Beatty (born 1951) is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. He received his PhD in 1979 in the History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, Bloomington,...
Bill Mathews
William Henry Mathews (1919–2003) was a Canadian geologist, volcanologist, engineer, and professor. He is considered a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America. Many of his publications continue to...
Stephen E. Calvert
Stephen E. “Steve” Calvert, PhD, FRSC (born December 30, 1935) is an award-winning Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. He has specialized in the study of chemical and geochemical oceanography. His work has shed light on the...
Bruce Bagemihl
Bruce Bagemihl is a Canadian biologist, linguist, and author of the book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity.
He served on the faculty of University of British Columbia, and he earned a Ph.D. in linguistics from there...
Charles Menzies
Charles R. Menzies is a Canadian anthropologist whose ancestry is with the Tsimshian people (Gitxaatla Nation) of northwestern British Columbia.
He is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on...
Clayton Oscar Person
Clayton Oscar Person, CM, FRSC (May 16, 1922 – Sept 1, 1990) was recognized internationally as an authority on the genetics of host-parasite relations . He was born and raised in Aylesbury, Saskatchewan, Canada and died in Vancouver, British...
Ivan Head
Ivan Leigh Head, OC (July 28, 1930 – November 1, 2004) was a Canadian lawyer, legal academic, and civil servant. He was an influential foreign policy adviser of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Born in Calgary, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Arts...
Jeremy S. Heyl
Jeremy S. Heyl is an astronomer and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of Physics and Astronomy, in Vancouver, British Columbia. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Black Holes and Neutron Stars. In the past he...
George Volkoff
George Michael Volkoff, OC, MBE, FRSC (February 23, 1914 – April 24, 2000) was a Canadian physicist and academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered.
Born in Moscow, his father...
Linda Svendsen
Linda Svendsen (born 1954) is a Canadian screenwriter and author. She was born in Vancouver and has lived there for most of her life.
Her works include many critically acclaimed short stories. Her stories were anthologized and published in magazines...
Brett Josef Grubisic
Brett Josef Grubisic is a Canadian novelist and editor, and professor of English at the University of British Columbia.
He has edited one anthology of gay male fiction, and co-edited an anthology of upcoming Canadian writers. His debut novel, The...
Timothy R. Parsons
Timothy Richard Parsons, O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc.(honoris causa), F.R.S.C. (born 1932) is a Canadian oceanographer and the first Canadian to receive a Japan Prize.
Born in Colombo, Ceylon, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1953, a Master of...
David Dolphin
David H. Dolphin, OC, FRS, FRSC (born January 15, 1940) is a Canadian biochemist.
He is an internationally recognized expert in porphyrin chemistry and biochemistry. He was the lead creator of Visudyne, a medication used in conjunction with laser...
Keith Maillard
Keith Maillard (born 28 February 1942 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a fiction author and poet.
Maillard has lived in various places in the United States and Canada.He attended West Virginia University and was host of a Boston campus radio programme...
Alan Mackworth
Alan Mackworth is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and is the founding director of the UBC Laboratory for Computational...
John S. MacDonald
John Spencer MacDonald, OC co-founded MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates with partner, Vern Dettwiler, in 1969. He served as President and CEO until 1982, and as Chairman of the Board from 1982 to 1998. In addition to professorships in electrical...
Alexander Hrennikoff
Alexander Hrennikoff (1896 — December 31, 1984) was a Russian-Canadian Structural Engineer, a founder of the Finite Element Method.
Alexander was born in Russia, graduated from the Institute of Communication Engineers in Moscow, received M.A.Sc....
Anne Fleming
Anne Fleming (born 25 April 1964) is a Canadian fiction writer.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, she attended the University of Waterloo, first enrolling in a geography program then moving to English studies. In 1991, she moved to British Columbia. She...
Cole Harris
Richard Colebrook "Cole" Harris (born July 4, 1936) is a Canadian geographer.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958 from the University of British Columbia. He received a Master of Science degree in 1962 and achieved his Ph.D. in 1964 from...
Judith Goslin Hall
Judith Goslin Hall, CM (born July 3, 1939) is a pediatrician, clinical geneticist and dysmorphologist who is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. She goes formally as Judith G. Hall and informally as Judy Hall.
The daughter of a minister,...
John Krebs
John Richard Krebs, Baron Krebs FRS (born 11 April 1945, Sheffield) is a world leader in zoology and more specifically bird behaviour. He is currently the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford University. Krebs was knighted in 1999, and was the first...
Derek Gregory
Derek Gregory (March 1, 1951) is an influential British geographer from the United Kingdom. He is currently professor of geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, having previously worked at Cambridge University.
Gregory is best...
Patricia Alice Shaw
Patricia Alice Shaw is a linguist specializing in phonology and known for her work on First Nations languages. She is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia and Director of the university's First Nations Languages...
Jim Green
Jim Green, is an American-Canadian who has been a longshoreman, taxicab driver, community activist, non-profit housing developer, municipal politician, university instructor and development consultant.
Born in Alabama, Green moved to Canada to avoid...
William Rees
William Rees, FRSC (born December 18, 1943), is a professor at the University of British Columbia and former director of the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at UBC.
Rees has taught at the University of British Columbia since 1969...
Henry Angus
Henry Forbes Angus, OC (April 19, 1891 – September 17, 1991) was a Canadian lawyer and academic.
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1911. He received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of...
Charles Thomas Beer
Charles Thomas Beer, CM (born November 18, 1915) is a Canadian chemist who helped in the discovery of Vinblastine.
Born in Leigh, Dorset, England, he came in the early 1950s to the department of medical research at the University of Western Ontario...
Michael Ames
Michael M. Ames, CM, FRSC (June 19, 1933 – February 20, 2006) was a Canadian academic and Professor of Anthropology of the department of anthropology-sociology at the University of British Columbia.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he received a...
Alan Cairns
Hugh Alan Craig Cairns, OC, FRSC (born March 2, 1930) is a Canadian political science professor emeritus.
Born in Galt (now part of Cambridge, Ontario), he received his BA in 1953 and his MA degree in 1957 from the University of Toronto. In 1963, he...
Peter Hochachka
Peter William Hochachka PhD FRSC OC (March 9, 1937 – September 16, 2002) was a Canadian professor and zoologist.
Born in Bordenave, Alberta, the son of the very Rev. William and Pearl Hochachka, he obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Alberta...
William Boyd
William Boyd, CC (June 21, 1885 – March 10, 1979) was a Scottish-Canadian pathologist, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks.
Born in Portsoy, Scotland, he received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1908. During...
Harold Copp
Douglas Harold Copp, CC, FRSC (January 16, 1915 - March 17, 1998) was a Canadian scientist who discovered and named the hormone calcitonin, which is used in the treatment of bone disease.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his M.D. from the...
Anthony Pawson
Anthony 'Tony' James Pawson, OC, OOnt, CH, FRS, FRSC (born October 18, 1952), British-born Canadian scientist whose research has revolutionized the understanding of signal transduction, the molecular mechanisms by which cells respond to external...
Warren Tallman
Warren Tallman (17 November 1921 — 1 July 1994) was an American-born poetry professor who inspired the Canadian Tish movement and influenced the mid-20th century poetry scene in Canada.
Born in Seattle, Tallman was raised in Tumwater, Washington. He...
Rocke Robertson
Harold Rocke Robertson, CC, FRSC (August 4, 1912 - February 8, 1998) is the former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University (1962-1970) and a physician.
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he received a Bachelor of Science in 1932; and...
Charlotte Froese Fischer
Acad. Prof. Dr. Charlotte Froese Fischer PhD (b. 1929) is a Canadian-American applied mathematician and computer scientist who gained world recognition for the development and implementation of the Multi-configurational Hartree-Fock (MCHF) approach...
C. S. Holling
Crawford Stanley (Buzz) Holling (6 December 1930, Theresa, New York) is a Canadian ecologist, and Emeritus Eminent Scholar and Professor in Ecological Sciences at the University of Florida. Holling is one of the conceptual founders of ecological...
Gregor Kiczales
Gregor Kiczales is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia in Canada. His best known work is on Aspect-oriented programming and the AspectJ extension for Java at Xerox PARC. He has also contributed to the design of the...
Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside
Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside, CC (7 July 1898 – September 27, 1992) was a Canadian university professor, diplomat, and civil servant. He was the Canadian ambassador to Mexico from 1944 to 1947, and Commissioner of the Northwest Territories from...
Beverley McLachlin
Beverley McLachlin, PC (born September 7, 1943) is the Chief Justice of Canada, the first woman to hold that position.
Born Beverley Gietz in Pincher Creek, Alberta, the eldest child of Ernest Gietz and Eleanora Kruschell, she received a BA and a MA...
