Scientists from Toronto

The list Scientists from Toronto includes Sheena Iyengar, Ali Khademhosseini, Sara Seager, Alice Eastwood and Lawrence Krauss. The list consists of 132 members.

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Toronto

City in Canada and capital of Ontario

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Shirley Tilghman

Canadian molecular biologist and president emerita of Princeton University

Overview: Shirley Marie Tilghman, OC FRS (née Caldwell; born 17 September 1946) is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. She is now a professor of molecular biology and public policy ...

Date of birth: 17 September 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Fox Chase Cancer Center people 19T

Canadian Fellows of the Royal Society 103T

21st-century American women scientists 1,334T
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Alice Eastwood

Canadian American botanist

Overview: Alice Eastwood (January 19, 1859 – October 30, 1953) was a Canadian American botanist. She is credited with building the botanical collection at the California Academy of Sciences, in San Francisco ...

Date of birth: 1859

Date of death: 30 October 1953

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Biologist

Gender: Female

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19th-century American women scientists 75T

20th-century American women scientists 967T

19th-century Canadian scientists 11T
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Lawrence Krauss

American physicist

Overview: Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve ...

Date of birth: 27 May 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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MIT Department of Physics alumni 211T

MIT Center for Theoretical Physics alumni 24T

21st-century American physicists 917T
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Richard Summerbell

Canadian mycologist

Overview: Richard C. Summerbell (born 29 June 1956) is a Canadian mycologist, author and award-winning songwriter. He was editor in chief of an international scientific journal in mycology from 2000 to 2004. In ...

Date of birth: 29 June 1956

Age: 68

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Journalist

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University of British Columbia Faculty of Science alumni 33T

Journalists from Toronto 110T

LGBT academics 106T
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Sheena Iyengar

American social psychologist

Overview: Sheena S. Iyengar is the S.T. Lee Professor of Business in the Management Department at Columbia Business School, widely and best known as an expert on choice. Her research focuses on the many facets of ...

Date of birth: 29 November 1969

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Business

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Canadian women psychologists 42T

Women business writers 62T

Scientists from New Jersey 31T
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Anastasios Venetsanopoulos

Canadian engineer

Overview: Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos (June 19, 1941 - November 17, 2014) was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in Toronto ...

Date of birth: 1941

Date of death: 17 November 2014

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: Greek

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Engineers from Ontario 9T

21st-century Greek scientists 5T

20th-century Greek scientists 7T
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Ali Khademhosseini

Iranian scientist

Overview: Ali Khademhosseini (Persian: علی خادم‌حسینی‎, born October 30, 1975, Tehran, Iran) is the Director and CEO of the Terasaki Institute who was a Professor at the University of California-Los Angeles ...

Date of birth: 30 October 1975

Age: 49

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty 41T

MIT School of Engineering alumni 716T

Engineers from Ontario 9T
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Sara Seager

Canadian astronomer

Overview: Sara Seager (born 21 July 1971) is a Canadian-American astronomer and planetary scientist. She is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is known for her work on extrasolar planets ...

Date of birth: 21 July 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Female

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Fellows of the American Astronomical Society 98T

American women astronomers 163T

Jewish Canadian scientists 53T
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Donald Sadoway

Professor of Materials Chemistry

Overview: Donald Robert Sadoway (born 7 March 1950) is the current (as of January 2013) John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A faculty member in the Dep ...

Date of birth: 7 March 1950

Age: 75

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Educator

Gender: Male

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Canadian emigrants to the United States 1,365T

Materials scientists and engineers 95T

Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty 1,084T
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Birutė Galdikas

Lithuanian-Canadian primatologist, conservationist (born 1946)

Overview: Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas, OC (born 10 May 1946), is a Lithuanian-Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author. She is a professor at Simon Fraser University. In ...

Date of birth: 10 May 1946

Age: 79

Nationality: Lithuanian

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Female

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Lithuanian women anthropologists 2T

Canadian women anthropologists 29T

Lithuanian anthropologists 3T
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Cathleen Synge Morawetz

Mathematician

Overview: Cathleen Synge Morawetz (May 5, 1923 – August 8, 2017) was a Canadian mathematician who spent much of her career in the United States. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential ...

Date of birth: 5 May 1923

Date of death: 8 August 2017

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Canadian women mathematicians 20T

21st-century women mathematicians 283T

20th-century women mathematicians 452T
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Alexander William Francis Banfield

Canadian mammalogist and biologist (1918—1996)

Overview: Alexander William Francis Banfield, Frank Banfield, A. W. F, Banfield (March 12, 1918 – March 8, 1996), was one of the small group of early Canadian mammalogists who worked with Canadian Wildlife Service ...

Date of birth: 12 March 1918

Date of death: 8 March 1996

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Biologist

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Helen Freedhoff

Canadian theoretical physicist

Overview: Helen Sarah Freedhoff (January 9, 1940 – June 10, 2017) was a Canadian theoretical physicist who studied the interaction of light with atoms. She gained her doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1965 ...

Date of birth: 9 January 1940

Date of death: 10 June 2017

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Physicist

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Canadian women physicists 19T

Jewish Canadian scientists 53T

2017 deaths 9,371T
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Katherine Hayhoe

Atmospheric scientist

Overview: Katharine Anne Scott Hayhoe (born April 15, 1972) is an atmospheric scientist and professor of political science at Texas Tech University, where she is director of the Climate Science Center. She is also ...

Date of birth: 15 April 1972

Age: 53

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Climate communication 12T

Women political scientists 294T

Women atmospheric scientists 7T
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Mark J. Poznansky

Canadian scientists

Overview: Mark J. Poznansky CM OOnt (born April 5, 1946) is a research scientist, science administrator and science blogger. He is the past president and CEO of the Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) and was previously ...

Date of birth: 25 April 1946

Age: 79

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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McGill University Faculty of Science alumni 155T

Scientists from Montreal 74T

20th-century Canadian scientists 147T
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M. Christine Zink

Canadian biologist

Overview: M. Christine "Chris" Zink is the director of the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She also holds professorships in the Department of Pathology ...

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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Johns Hopkins University administrators 2T

Canadian women biologists 32T

Canadian academic administrators 29T
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Nathan Mendelsohn

Canadian mathematician

Overview: Nathan Saul Mendelsohn, CM FRSC (April 14, 1917 – July 4, 2006) was an American-born mathematician who lived and worked in Canada. Mendelsohn was a researcher in several areas of discrete mathematics ...

Date of birth: 14 April 1917

Date of death: 4 July 2006

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Mathematician

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Presidents of the Canadian Mathematical Society 21T

Jewish Canadian scientists 53T

Canadian people of Romanian-Jewish descent 49T
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Isaac Abella

Physicist

Overview: Isaac David Abella (June 20, 1934 – October 23, 2016) was a Professor of Physics at The University of Chicago. He specialized in laser physics, quantum optics, and spectroscopy. Isaac was the cousin of ...

Date of birth: 20 June 1934

Date of death: 23 October 2016

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

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Rare earth scientists 119T

Jewish Canadian scientists 53T

2016 deaths 9,448T
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Mendel Sachs

Physicist

Overview: Mendel Sachs (April 13, 1927 – May 5, 2012) was an American theoretical physicist. His scientific work includes the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force ...

Date of birth: 13 April 1927

Date of death: 5 May 2012

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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American relativity theorists 53T

20th-century American physicists 853T

Lockheed Missiles and Space Company people 9T
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Laurent C. Siebenmann

French mathematician

Overview: Laurent Carl Siebenmann (the first name is sometimes spelled Laurence or Larry) (born 1939) is a Canadian mathematician based at the Université de Paris-Sud at Orsay, France.

Date of birth: 1939

Age: 85

Nationality: French

Occupation: Mathematician

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20th-century French mathematicians 295T

Fellows of the American Mathematical Society 955T

Topologists 378T