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Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC), encompassing the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada, is the country’s oldest and most prestigious scholarly institute. A national academy founded in 1882 by the Right Honourable Marquess of Lorne, then the Governor General of Canada, RSC is dedicated to promotion of exceptional learning, research, and accomplishments in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The Royal Society of Canada is a senior national body of approximately 1700 Fellows—distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars selected by their peers for outstanding contributions to the natural and social sciences and to the humanities.

The Royal Society of Canada is composed of three academies:

• L’académie des letters et des sciences humaines (Academy I)
• Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (Academy II)
• Academy of Science (Academy III)

Each year, RSC elects ten members to Académie I, twenty to Academy II, and thirty to Academy III. Nominations for Fellowship are peer-reviewed by the current Fellows of RSC. Nominees are judged on the quality of their research and scholarly achievements. In addition, up to six Specially Elected and Foreign Fellows are elected annually for contributions to the objectives of the Society other than by scholarship and research.

The Royal Society of Canada recognizes merit and achievement by electing to its membership distinguished Canadian scholars from all branches of learning who have achieved renown, both nationally and internationally, by publishing learned works or original research in the arts, humanities, and sciences.

Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences

Wiktor L. Adamowicz, Rural Economy
Edward Blodgett†, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Janine Brodie, Political Science
Sarah Carter, History
Timothy Caulfield, Law
Patricia Clements, English and Film Studies
Jagannath Das†, Educational Psychology
Patricia Demers, English and Film Studies
Milan Dimic*, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Vincent Di Lollo†, Psychology
Duncan Fishwick†, History and Classics
Leslie Green†, Political Science
Isobel Grundy, English and Film Studies
Jonathan Hart, English and Film Studies
C.R. (Bob) Hinings, Strategic Management and Organization
William Jones†, History and Classics
Gary Kelly, English and Film Studies
John King-Farlow†, Philosophy
Leszek Kosínski†, Geography
Karol Krótki†, Sociology
Beverly Lemire, History and Classics
Susan McDaniel, Sociology
Juliet McMaster†, English and Film Studies
Rowland McMaster†, English and Film Studies
Adam Morton, Philosophy
R. Gordon Moyles†, English and Film Studies
Edward Mozejko†, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Gwynn Nettler†, Sociology
Shirley Neuman, English
John Orrell†, English
Doug Owram†, History
Norman Page†, English
Regula Qureshi†, Music
Derek Sayer†, Sociology
Nico Stehr†, Sociology
Lewis Thomas*, History
Daniel Woolf, History and Classics

Academy of Sciences

Theresa Allen, Pharmacology
William Ayer†, Chemistry
Lorne Babiuk, Infectious Diseases
Norman Beaulieu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
C. Fred Bentley†, Renewable Resources
Chris Bleackley, Biochemistry
Diane Cox, Medical Genetics
Stanley Boutin, Biological Sciences
William Bridger†, Biochemistry
David Bundle, Chemistry
Carol Cass, Oncology
John Colter†, Biochemistry
Robert Cormack*, Botany
Edwin Cossins†, Biological Sciences
Ronald Coutts†, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Philip Currie, Biological Sciences
Edwin Daniel, Pharmacology
Erwin Diener†, Immunology
Fernand Ellyin†, Mechanical Engineering
Michael Evans, Physics
Robert Folinsbee†, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Paul Gorham†, Biological Sciences
Ian Gough†, Physics
William Graham†, Chemistry
Harry Gunning†, Chemistry
Philip F. Halloran, Medicine
Walter Harris†, Chemistry
D. Jed Harrison, Chemistry
Larry M. Heaman, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Ole Hindsgaul, Chemistry
Chuji Hiruki†, Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
Robert Hodges†, Biochemistry
Gary Horlick†, Chemistry
Steve Hrudey, Public Health Sciences
Werner Israel†, Physics
Michael James†, Biochemistry
Brian Jones, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Ernest Kanasewich*, Physics
Cyril Kay†, Biochemistry
Paul Kebarle†, Chemistry
Shrawan Kumar, Physical Therapy
Raymond Lemieux*, Chemistry
Gary D. Lopaschuk, Pediatrics, Pharmacology
James MacGregor†, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Neil Madsen†, Biochemistry
Jacob Masliyah, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Ronald M. McElhaney, Biochemistry
Marek Michalak, Biochemistry
Robert Moody, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Norbert Morgenstern†, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tim Mosmann, Immunology
A. Richard Palmer, Biological Sciences
Keir G. Pearson, Physiology
George Pemberton, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Richard Peter, Biological Sciences
Richard Rachubinski, Cell Biology
Raymond Rajotte, Surgery
Gordon Rostoker†, Physics
Nathaniel Rutter†, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Indira Samarasekera, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Jonathan Schaeffer, Computing Science
David Schindler, Biological Sciences
Lawrence Smillie†, Biochemistry
Daniel Smith, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mary Spencer†, Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
Charles Stelck†, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Brian Sykes, Biochemistry
Yasushi Takahashi†, Physics
Diane E. Taylor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
D. Lorne Tyrrell, Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Hiroomi Umezawa*, Physics
Dennis Vance, Biochemistry
John Vederas, Chemistry
Lawrence (Larry) Wang†, Biological Sciences
Roderick Wasylishen, Chemistry
Alfred Weiss, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Robert Wolko, Physics
William Wonders, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Specially Elected Fellow

Ernest Ingles, Learning Systems

† indicates Professor Emeritus
* indicates deceased