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ƻ��Ժ pioneers /about/taxonomy/term/98/all en Charles Taylor /about/article/charles-taylor One of the most important thinkers Canada has produced, Charles Taylor (BA ‘52) is that rare philosopher who attempts to put his ideas into practice. His writings have been translated into 20 languages, and have covered a range of subjects that include artificial intelligence, language, social behaviour, morality and multiculturalism. A pupil of Isaiah Berlin at Oxford, Taylor taught at ƻ��Ժ from 1961 to 1997, and is now a professor emeritus. Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:53:43 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 901 at /about Dr Brenda Milner, CC /about/article/dr-brenda-milner-cc For thirty years, Brenda Milner, a neuropsychologist with the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), worked with a patient known as HM. Through her encounters with him, Milner would establish her reputation as one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, and make HM famous. Yet after three decades, he never remembered her name. Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:08:44 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 894 at /about Thomas Chang /about/article/thomas-chang-professor-physiology Like many driven young men, Thomas Chang would bring his work home with him. The difference with Chang was his "work" was that the near-impossible task of creating the world's first artificial blood cell. And as an undergraduate student in 1956, his "home" was his residence room in ƻ��Ժ's Douglas Hall. Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:55:32 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 883 at /about Henry Mintzberg /about/article/henry-mintzberg A professor in ƻ��Ժ's Desautels Faculty of Management, Henry Mintzberg has been called a lot of things over his career - influential, innovative, iconoclast. Business magazine Fast Company even likened him to Mick Jagger. Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:16:27 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 896 at /about John Humphrey (1905-1995) /about/article/john-humphrey-law-professor Translated into 321 languages and dialects, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is quite probably the most cited legal document ever drafted by a Canadian. In 1946, John Humphrey, then a Professor of Law at ƻ��Ժ, was asked to work with a committee of the United Nations Secretariat to help the organization draft a statement on human rights. Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:27:41 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 885 at /about Sir William Osler (1849-1919) /about/article/sir-william-osler-1849-1919 Referred to William Osler as a patient, poet Walt Whitman revealed remarkable clairvoyance in 1888 when he observed, "As for Osler: he is a great man — one of the rare men. I should be much surprised if he didn't soar way, way up — get very famous at his trade — someday. He has the air of the thing about him — of achievement." Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:29:51 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 897 at /about Margaret Lock /about/article/margaret-lock-marjorie-bronfman-professor-social-studies-medicine Though not a doctor herself, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock is having a profound effect on the practice of medicine. Lock, the Marjorie Bronfman Professor in the Social Studies in Medicine at ƻ��Ժ, studies the relationship between emerging scientific knowledge with social factors such as culture, tradition and politics. Her award-winning book Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America used that approach to change how the condition is perceived in a clinical context. Mon, 18 Dec 2017 20:42:22 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 888 at /about Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) /about/article/wilder-penfield-1891-1976 Wilder Penfield, Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at ƻ��Ժ, revolutionized our understanding of the human brain. With help from collaborators, Penfield refined and extended a daring surgical technique learned from his German mentor, Otfried Foerster. The "Montreal Procedure" allowed patients to remain awake and describe their reactions while the surgeon stimulated different areas of the brain. Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:36:21 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 898 at /about Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) /about/article/hugh-maclennan-1907-1990 By the time Hugh MacLennan joined ƻ��Ժ's faculty as a part-time English professor in 1951, he had already been honoured with three Governor General's awards, Canada's highest literary prize. When he retired in 1980, he had won a total of five for both fiction and non-fiction, a number unmatched by any other writer. Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:24:49 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 889 at /about Sir Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) /about/article/sir-ernest-rutherford-1871-1937 When Ernest Rutherford was told, while working on his family's farm in New Zealand, that he had won a scholarship to Cambridge University, his reaction was to stand straight and declare, "I've just dug my last potato." Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:43:47 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 899 at /about Ronald Melzack /about/article/ronald-melzack When Ronald Melzack first published a paper detailing the gate control theory of pain he had formulated with MIT collaborator Patrick Wall, it seemed unlikely that it would be embraced as one of the most cited neuroscience articles of all time. "People didn't like the idea at all. The first papers that came out about our work for the first year or two set out to destroy the theory," Melzack, now an professor emeritus in psychology, recalled. Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:58:57 +0000 ƻ��Ժ Staff 891 at /about