- Peter B. Bennett
Peter B. Bennett, Ph.D., D.Sc. (born c. 1932) is the founder and former president and CEO of the Divers Alert Network (DAN), a non-profit organization devoted to assisting scuba divers in need. He is a professor of anesthesiology at Duke University Medical Center, and is currently the Senior Director of the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology at Duke. Bennett is recognized as a leading authority on the effects of high pressure on human physiology. - J. Philippe Rushton
John Philippe (Phil) Rushton (born December 3, 1943) is a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, who is most widely known for his work on intelligence and racial differences, particularly his book "Race, Evolution And Behavior". Rushton also researches altruism from a number of perspectives. Rushton is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American, British, and Canadian Psychological Associations. - Britton Chance
Britton Chance (born July 24, 1913) is Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1940 and a second at Cambridge University in 1942. In 1952 he received as D.Sc. from Cambridge. His research interests focus on the use of infrared light to characterize the properties of various tissues and the breast tumors. - William Stewart
Sir William Stewart Ph.D., D.Sc., FRS, FRSE, was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1999-2002 and Chairman of the Microbiological Research Authority. He is married to the former Dr. Elizabeth Smales, a senior medical officer at the Scottish Executive. From 1990 to 1995 Sir William was Chief Scientific Adviser, Cabinet Office and the first Head of the UK Office of Science and Technology (1992-1995). - George Poste
George Poste, D.V.M., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., Director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. From 1992 to 1999, Dr. Poste was Chief Science and Technology Officer and President of Research & Development for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, SmithKline Beecham. In an industry where bringing a single drug to market makes careers, Poste oversaw the registration of 31 drug, vaccine and diagnostic products. - Duncan Bannatyne
Duncan Bannatyne, OBE D.Sc.(born February 2 1949) is a British entrepreneur and businessman. He is most famous for his appearance as a business angel or "Dragon" on the BBC programme "Dragons' Den". - Frank Debenham
Frank Debenham OBE; M.A.; D.Sc.(Hon.); Emeritus Professor of Geography, Cambridge University; first director of Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University. Born in New South Wales, Australia in 1883, the second of five children. One of a group of three geologists on Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913). From January to March 1911 Debenham, along with three other expedition members (Griffith Taylor, … - Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Henry Alleyne Nicholson (September 11,1844 - January 4,1899) was a British palaeontologist and zoologist. The son of Dr. John Nicholson, a biblical scholar, was born at Penrith, Cumbria on September 11th, 1844. He was educated at Appleby Grammar School and at the universities of Gottingen (Ph.D., 1866) and Edinburgh (D.Sc., 1867; M.D., 1869). Geology had early attracted his attention, and his first publication was a thesis for his D.Sc. - Kenneth Mees
Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (May 26, 1882-August 15, 1960) was a British-American physicist and photographic researcher. He was born in Wellingborough, England, the son of a Wesleyan minister, and attended the University of London. In 1906 he was awarded his D.Sc. with a dissertation on photographic theory. From 1906 until 1912 he worked for Wratten and Wainwright, Ltd., assisting Frederick Wratten in developing the first panchromatic photographic plates, … - Kurt Freund
Kurt Freund (17 January, 1914 - 23 October, 1996) was a sexologist famous for his studies of male sexual orientation and male sex offenders using penile plethysmography (PPG). - George W. Buckley
George W. Buckley is the Chairman, President and Chief Executive of 3M. He was named to these positions on December 7 2005. Buckley came to 3M from Brunswick Corporation where he served as chairman and chief executive officer since June 2000. Prior to leading Brunswick, Buckley was with Emerson Electric Company as the president of its U.S.-based Electrical Motors Division and the Automotive and Precision Motors Division. - David Orme Masson
Sir David Orme Masson KBE (1858-1937) was a scientist born in England who emigrated to Australia to become the first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. He was the son of David Masson, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and his wife, Emily Rosaline Orme. He was born in London on 13 January 1858, his father being then Professor of English Literature at University College, London. - Sisir Kumar Mitra
Sisir Kumar Mitra [or "Shishirkumar Mitra"] (October 24, 1890-August 13 1963) was an Indian physicist. He was born and raised in Calcutta, India. His parents were the doctor Saratkumari and the school teacher Jaykrishna. At the age of nine he witnessed a hot air balloon and became intrigued in the phenomenon, so he began studying science. The family moved to Bhagalpur, where Sisir attended school and the local college. - A. C. Heidebrecht
Professor Arthur C. Heidebrecht, B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D., D.Sc. (born 1939) is a Canadian civil engineer. He served as a faculty member at McMaster University from (1963-1997), dean of Engineering (1981-1989) and Vice-president Academic (1989-1994). Born in Alberta, Canada, he studied at the University of Alberta and graduated with a B.Sc in Civil Engineering in 1960. He obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1961 and 1963 respectively. - Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was a well-known Indian scientist. Bhatnagar was born in Shahpur, now in Pakistan. His father died when he was only eight months old and he spent his childhood in the house of his maternal grandfather, an engineer, where he developed a liking for science and engineering. He used to enjoy building mechanical toys, electronic batteries, string telephones. From his maternal family he also inherited a gift of poetry, … - Charles Allen Thomas
Charles Allen Thomas (February 15, 1900 - March 29, 1982) was a noted American chemist and businessman, and an important figure in the Manhattan Project. Thomas was born on a farm in Scott County, Kentucky, the son of Charles Allen and Frances Carrick Thomas. He received his BA (1920) and an honorary D.Sc. (1933) from Transylvania College, with an intermediate MA (1924) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - Balfour Currie
Balfour Watson Currie, C.C., B.Sc., M.Sc. 1927 USask, Ph.D. 1930 McGill, LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C. (1902 - January 8, 1981) was a Canadian scientist specializing in the fields of meteorology and climatology. Currie and Frank Davies worked together at Chesterfield Inlet during the Second International Polar Year (1932-1933). Online archive of Currie's work on 2nd IPY He was associated with the University of Saskatchewan (1930 - 1981), … - Marie Alfred Cornu
Marie Alfred Cornu was a French physicist. Cornu was born at Orléans, and after being educated at the École polytechnique and the École des mines, in 1867 he became professor of experimental physics in the former institution, where he remained throughout his life. Although he made various excursions into other branches of physical science, undertaking, for example, … - George Connell
George Edward Connell, OC, B.A., Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.C.I.C., FRSC, (born 1930) is a Canadian academic. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Connell studied at Upper Canada College in Toronto and gradutated in 1947. He then attended the University of Toronto, earning an Honours B.A. in biochemistry in 1951 and a Ph.D in 1955. Connell worked at the University of Toronto for the next 22 years, … - Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille
Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille pwäz-'wē (April 22, 1799 - December 26, 1869) was a French physician and physiologist. Poiseuille was born in Paris, France. From 1815 to 1816 he studied at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He was trained in physics and mathematics. In 1828 he earned his D.Sc. degree with a dissertation entitled "Recherches sur la force du coeur aortique." He was interested in the flow of human blood in narrow tubes. - Mladen Savovich
Dr. Mladen Savovich, structural engineer, professor of structural engineering, (born February 5, 1950) is a Bosnian Serb born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dr. Savovich has published technical papers in international and Russian journals, has been a peer reviewer for the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, and has taught part-time at the Yugorsk State University, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. In 2005 Dr. - William Rowan Browne
William Rowan Browne was an Australian geologist who was born in Lislea, County Londonderry, Ireland. He travelled to Australia in 1904 due to tuberculosis, and tutored before enrolling at the University of Sydney. He earned a D.Sc. with university medal in 1922 for his work in igneous and metamorphic petrology. Browne completed "The Geology of the Commonwealth of Australia", started by Professor Edgeworth David which was finally printed in 1950. - Robert B. Salter
Robert Bruce Salter C.C., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C., F.R.H.S.C. (hon.) (born December 15, 1924), is a Canadian surgeon and a pioneer in the field of pediatric orthopaedic surgery. Born in Stratford, Ontario, he graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1947. He worked at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and later was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1977 and was promoted to Companion in 1997. - Charles F. Goodeve
Charles Frederick Goodeve was a Canadian chemist and pioneer in operations research. During World War II, he was instrumental in developing the "hedgehog" ASW weapon and the degaussing method for protecting ships from naval mines. Goodeve was born on 21 February 1904 in Neepawa, Manitoba, the son of an Anglican clergyman. He attended University of Manitoba, passing his B.Sc. exams in 1925 in chemistry and physics, and receiving an M.Sc. electrochemistry in 1927. - Jack Drummond
Sir Jack Cecil Drummond D.Sc., FRIC, FRS (12 Jan 1891-4 Aug or 5 Aug 1952) was a distinguished biochemist, noted for his work on nutrition as applied to the British diet under rationing during the Second World War. He was murdered, together with his wife and 10-year old daughter, on the night of 4 Aug - 5 Aug 1952 near Lurs, a village or commune in the Basses-Alpes region (now Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) of Southern France. - Ernest Willington Skeats
Ernest Willington Skeats (1 November 1875 - 20 January 1953) was an English-Australian geologist. Skeats was born in Southampton, England and was educated at Handel and Hartley colleges, Southampton, and entered the Royal College of Science, London where received a D.Sc. in 1902. Skeats moved to Australia in 1904 succeeding John Walter Gregory in the chair of geology and mineralogy at the University of Melbourne. He specialised in petrology and stratigraphy. - Robert Folinsbee
Robert Edward Folinsbee, O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C., F.G.S.A. (born 1917) is a Canadian geologist, whose work has involved geochronology, ore deposits, and meteorites. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1938 from the University of Alberta, a Master of Science degree in 1940 and a Ph.D. in 1942 from the University of Minnesota. During World War II, he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Pilot. - Myra Bennett
Myra M. Bennett CM, MBE, D.Sc., RN (1890 - April 26, 1990) born London, England, died Daniel's Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada. Dubbed "The Florence Nightingale of Newfoundland" by the Evening Telegram, is a tribute to her tremendous contribution to the people of the Great Northern Peninsula and known simply as "The Nurse". - Edward Sydney Simpson
Edward Sydney Simpson was an Australian mineralogist and geochemist. Simpson was born in Woollahra, New South Wales to an Irish father and English mother. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney where he graduated B.E. with honours, in 1895 and D.Sc. in 1919. Simpson worked at the Rivertree silver mill, New South Wales and then for the Mount Morgan Gold-Mining Company in Queensland. - Thomas David Anderson
Thomas David Anderson (February 6 1853 - March 31 1932) was a Scottish amateur astronomer. He was born in Edinburgh. When he was five years old, his father showed him Comet Donati, and his nanny also gave him an interest in astronomy. He studied theology and obtained a D.Sc. in philology in 1880, but abandoned the idea of becoming a minister. He was sufficiently well off financially to pursue astronomy full time. - Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran
Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran (8 October, 1922 - 7 April, 2001), is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Indian scientists of the 20th century, best known for his work that led to his creation of the Ramachandran plot for understanding peptide structure. He also made other major contributions in biology and physics. Ramachandran was born in the town of Ernakulam, Kerala, India. - Arthur Bache Walkom
Arthur Bache Walkom was an Australian palaeobotanist and museum director. Walkom was born in Grafton, New South Wales and moved with his family to Sydney where he was educated at Petersham Public and Fort Street Model schools and the University of Sydney graduating with a D.Sc. in 1918. He worked under Professor (Sir) Edgeworth David as a junior demonstrator. From 1939–1954 Walkom was the director of the Australian Museum. - Donald I. Williamson
Donald Irving Williamson was a British planktologist and carcinologist, born 1922-01-08, Alnham, Northumberland, England. He gained his first degree from the Durham University in 1942, his Ph.D. from the same university in 1948, and a D.Sc. from the Newcastle University in 1972. He worked at the Port Erin Marine Laboratory of the University of Liverpool from 1948 to 1997, and has published on the Irish Sea plankton, crustacean behaviour and taxonomy, crustacean larvae, … - Desmond Herbert
Desmond Andrew Herbert CMG (17 June 1898–8 September 1976) was an Australian botanist. The son of a fruit-grower, Herbert was born in Diamond Creek, Victoria in 1898. was educated at Malvern State School and the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, then matriculated to the University of Melbourne, from which he obtained a B.Sc. in 1918 and a M.Sc. in 1920. - Roberto Esser dos Reis
Roberto Esser dos Reis, Brazilian D.Sc. and ichthyologist. Among other duties, doctor dos Reis has been working at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Most of his research as an ichtyologist regards different types of South American catfish; for instance, he is the author of the species "Otocinclus cocama, Reis 2004". He is also a member of the Freshwater Fish Specialist Group, … - Edward Divers
Dr. Edward Divers M.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. was born on November 27 1837, and died on April 8 1912 at his home in Kensington, London, England. Divers received his early education at the City of London School and the Royal College of Chemistry. In 1854, he was appointed as teaching assistant and demonstrator at Queen's College, Galway, where he studied medicine, one of the few scientific degrees then available in Ireland; he was awarded the M.D. degree in 1860. - Henry Caselli Richards
Henry Caselli Richards Australian geologist. Richards was born in Melton, Victoria and was educated at Box Hill Grammar, South Melbourne College and the University of Melbourne, obtaining a D.Sc. in 1915. In 1919 he became the University of Queensland's first geology professor. In 1922 he founded, along with Sir Matthew Nathan, the Great Barrier Reef Committee. Richards worked for the Queensland Department of Mines and was a member of artesian water committee. - Frederick Stoward
Frederick Stoward was the Government Botanist with the Department of Agriculture in Western Australia from 1911 to 1917. Born at Axbridge, Somerset, England, he was a member of the Hardy family famous for the Hardy Wine Company. He emigrated to Australia when he was about 15 years old, but later returned to Europe, studying at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, from which he obtained either a D.Sc. - James Hillier
James Hillier OC, Ph.D, D.Sc (August 22, 1915 - January 15, 2007) was a Canadian-born scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938. Born in Brantford, Ontario, the son of James and Ethel (Cooke) Hillier, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Physics (1937), Master of Arts (1938), and a Ph.D (1941) from the University of Toronto, … - Mitchell Sharp
Mitchell William Sharp, PC, CC, BA, D.Sc, LL.D (May 11, 1911 - March 19, 2004) was a Canadian politician and a Companion of the Order of Canada, was most noted for his service as a Liberal Cabinet minister. He had, however, served in both private and public sectors during his long career. Sharp was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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