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    Mario Bunge

    Mario Agusto Bunge, FRSC, physicist, philosopher (born at Buenos Aires, Argentina on 21 September 1919; died 24 February 2020 in Montreal, QC). His career as a researcher rapidly assumed international scope and led him on to countless activities as an editor, speaker, guest professor, learned society member, and recipient of honorary distinctions, etc.

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    Hubert Reeves: Poet of the Stars

    The following article is an editorial written by The Canadian Encyclopedia staff. Editorials are not usually updated.

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    Richard E. Taylor

    Richard Edward Taylor, CC, FRS, FRSC, physicist, educator (born 2 November 1929 in Medicine Hat, Alberta; died 22 February 2018 in Stanford, California). In 1990, Taylor was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for the development of the quark model in particle physics.” (See also Nobel Prizes and Canada; Physics.)

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    Sylvia Olga Fedoruk

    Sylvia Olga Fedoruk, OC, physicist, educator, 17th lieutenant-governor of Saskatchewan (1988-94) (born 5 May 1927 in Canora, SK; died 26 September 2012 in Saskatoon). Fedoruk was a medical physicist who helped advance cancer treatment (see Physics; Contemporary Medicine).

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    Victoria Kaspi

    Victoria Michelle (Vicky) Kaspi, CC, FRSC, FRS, astrophysicist (born 30 June 1967 in Austin, Texas). Kaspi is best known for her studies of collapsed stars such as neutron stars and pulsars. In 2016, she became the first woman to win the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal, the country’s top science prize awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. 

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