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Innis-Gérin Medal
- 2011 - Georges Dionne, FRSC
- 2007 - Gilbert Laporte
- 2003 - Richard Tremblay, MSRC
- 2001 - Byron P. Rourke, FRSC
- 1999 - Rodolphe De Koninck
- 1997 - Norman S. Endler
- 1995 - Albert Legault, MSRC
- 1991 - Thérèse Gouin-Décarie, MSRC
- 1989 - Albert Faucher, MSRC
- 1987 - Anthony D. Scott, FRSC
- 1985 - Bruce G. Trigger, FRSC
- 1983 - Malcolm C. Urquhart
- 1981 - H. Gordon Skilling, FRSC
- 1979 - Marc-Adélard Tremblay
- 1977 - Harry G. Johnson
- 1975 - Noël Mailloux
- 1973 - Jean-Charles Falardeau
- 1971 - Jacques Henripin
- 1969 - Alexander Brady, FRSC
- 1968 - Esdras Minville
- 1967 - W. A. Mackintosh, FRSC
Top of Page2011 - Georges Dionne, FRSC
Georges Dionne est un chercheur de renommée internationale en économie appliquée à l'assurance, en finance, en santé, en transport et en environnement. Il a aussi contribué à l'économétrie appliquée et à la statistique appliquée. Ce sont surtout ses tests pour isoler les problèmes d'information qui le distinguent. L'analyse des problèmes d'information a été introduite en science économique au début des années 1960. Pendant deux décennies, une panoplie de modèles théoriques a été proposée mais aucune contribution n'avait mesuré la pertinence empirique des problèmes d'information. Les travaux de Georges Dionne ont été parmi les premiers à démontrer que l'asymétrie d'information pouvait entraîner des coûts économiques réels. Il a aussi contribué à l'évaluation économique de la vie humaine, à l'étude de la perception des risques, à la mesure du risque, à la tarification de l'assurance automobile, à la gestion du risque de crédit et du risque opérationnel et à la réglementation des institutions financières. Il a remporté une quinzaine de prix pour la qualité de ses réalisations scientifiques, dont le prix Marcel-Vincent de l'ACFAS, le prix américain Kulp-Wright pour le Handbook of Insurance et un doctorat honorifique de l'Université d'Orléans en France.
2007 - Gilbert Laporte
Gilbert Laporte est un chercheur de renommée internationale dans le domaine des méthodes d'optimisation pour la résolution de problèmes de gestion: logistique et transport, conception de réseaux de distribution, découpage territorial, construction d'horaires de travail, localisation d'ambulances et ordonnancement. Les modèles et algorithmes qu’il a développés permettent la résolution de problèmes complexes.
2003 - Richard E. Tremblay, MSRC
Richard Tremblay, MSRC, holds the Canada Research Chair in Child Development at the Université de Montréal. For more than 20 years, he has conducted an extensive program of longitudinal and experimental studies on child development. Through repeated evaluations of more than 30,000 children, researchers have been able to trace, for the first time, the different developmental trajectories of social behaviour from birth through to the beginning of adulthood. These studies have also led to the identification of predictors and long-term consequences of deviant trajectories. Dr. Tremblay was one of the first to integrate preventive intervention experiments into longitudinal studies. His work on the development of physical aggression has challenged traditional theories of social learning by showing that children do not learn to be aggressive, but rather, how not to be aggressive. These findings indicate that the interventions that will be most effective in preventing chronic physical aggression problems will probably be those that help pre-school age children learn means other than physical aggression. Confirmation of this hypothesis is one of the main objectives of the prevention programs that he is currently developing with his colleagues, along with several ministries and foundations. His work has been published in more than 200 articles and book chapters, and has been translated into several languages.
2001 - Byron P. Rourke, FRSC
Byron P. Rourke, FRSC, is a Professor of Psychology and a University Professor at the University of Windsor, and a member of the faculty of the School of Medicine, Yale University. Widely regarded as North America's leading child-clinical neuropsychologist, Rourke is known principally for his seminal contributions to the research literature on the neurodevelopmental and psychosocial dimensions of learning disabilities in children. These contributions have broken new ground in the areas of classification and neurodevelopmental dynamics of various subtypes of learning disabilities. His best-known work is that relating to the delineation of the syndrome of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD) and of the "white matter" model that he has proposed to account for the neurodevelopmental dimensions and dynamics of the syndrome. Manifestations of the NLD syndrome in many types of neurological disease, disorder, and dysfunction have been documented by him and by numerous investigators around the world. Specification of the psychosocial dimensions of subtypes of learning disabilities and the ramifications of the NLD syndrome in various forms of neurodevelopmental disabilities have proven to be particularly heuristic. In all the awards he has received, his sustained contributions to the explication of the psychosocial consequences of brain disease and learning disabilities have been highlighted.
1999 - Rodolphe De Koninck, MSRC
Citation available in French only.
1997 - Norman S. Endler
Norman S. Endler, York University, is one of the leading authorities in the world on the Interaction Model of Personality Psychology. He has made sustained contributions to the areas of social psychology, personality, clinical psychology, and developmental psychology. His early experiments were on conformity and made important contributions to social psychology. His subsequent studies on person/situation interactions signalled him as a leader in the fields of social psychology and personality. His multidimensional interactional model of stress, anxiety, and coping has had important empirical, theoretical, and practical implications. A prolific scholar, he has 2115 publications (journal articles, books, chapters in books), plus 86 technical reports. He has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Medal, an Ontario Psychological Association Award of Merit, a Killam Research Fellowship (Canada Council), the 1997 Canadian Psychological Association D. O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Science, and a Distinguished Research Professorship. Dr. Endler's scholarly contributions to the science of Psychology are truly extraordinary - they are striking in their scope, impact, and sustained nature. His programmatic research in personality and social psychology - especially his work on stress, anxiety, and coping - has contributed to a better understanding of human nature.
1995 - Albert Legault, MSRC
Citation available in French only.
1991 - Thérèse Gouin-Décarie, MSRC
Citation available in French only.
1989 - Albert Faucher, MSRC
Citation available in French only.
1987 - Anthony D. Scott, FRSC
Anthony D. Scott, Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia, is the 1987 winner of the Innis-Gérin Medal of the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Scott has made lasting contributions to the study of resources and conservation, the finance of federations, fisheries economics, transfrontier pollution, benefit-cost analysis, water resources, the "brain drain", property rights, mineral economics, and constitutional reform. Scott's classic book, Natural Resources: The Economics of Conservation (1955, republished 1983), broke important new ground in the use of capital theory to study a broad range of issues in the economics of natural resources. This book led to another, The Commonwealth in Ocean Fisheries (1966, revised in 1973). The links between tenure and efficiency in resource developments have been central to much of Professor Scott's work, including his current work on several centuries of history relating to the emergence of property rights in mining, forestry and fisheries. Professor Scott was a member of the International Joint Commission (IJC) during 1968 to 1972 and an environmental consultant to the OECD (1972-1975). He has published more than 125 articles and papers, received several prestigious fellowships and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982.
1985 - Bruce G. Trigger, FRSC
It would need several specialists to do justice to the contribution Professor Trigger has made to the literature of the social sciences, because his dozen books, over sixty journal articles and some thirty contributions to books edited by others, range from the studies of Indians of southern Ontario and Quebec, to the rise of civilization in Egyptian Nubia, and from theoretical discussions of aims of archaeology, through historical overviews of the archaeological discipline. One of the problems to which Professor Trigger addressed himself was the identity of the people who had occupied Hochelaga when Jacques Cartier visited Montreal in 1535. The results were presented in Cartier's Hochelaga and the Dawson Site (1972), co-authored with James F. Pendergast. The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 (1976) is truly a masterpiece of compelling precision and orderly presentation. The Nubian aspect of Professor Trigger's work began with his participation as a chief archaeologist in the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt while he was a graduate student at Yale University. Out of this emerged History and Settlement in Lower Nubia (1965) and The Late Nubian Settlement at Arminna West (1967). Particularly noteworthy are his distinguished contributions to the study of the Meroitic language, an extinct language known from inscriptions. Professor Trigger has been a very active participant in the process of soulsearching on methods, theories, and history of archaeology. One approach involves the study of settlement patterns and another the exploration of ethnohistoric records. As a general statement on archaeological methods, addressed primarily to college students, Beyond History: the Methods of Prehistory (1968), remains a useful text. Finally, brilliant examples of Professor Trigger's breadth and depth of scholarship, as well as his lucid prose style, are found in a series of publications dealing with the history of the discipline of archaeology as part of anthropology and social science.
1983 - Malcolm C. Urquhart, FRSC
Professor M.C. Urquhart has made a distinguished and sustained contribution to Canadian economic research. Appropriately for a medal bearing the name of Harold Innis, as well as Léon Gérin, he has been the leading scholar in the development of statistics for the quantitative study of Canada's economic past. As skilled with the theoretical intricacies of his subject as with its empirical bases, his writings have ranged widely and deeply from new insights into the economic growth of countries to the intellectual growth of economics, and from major contributions in pure theory to the application of economic tools to major policy issues. Through the quality of his work and his stimulus to the research of others he has added meaning and significance to the term "scholar".
1981 - H. Gordon Skilling, FRSC
H. Gordon Skilling, FRSC, of the University of Toronto, has been awarded the Innis-Gérin Medal for his eminent and enduring work in the advancement of the social sciences. Born in Toronto in 1912, after studies at Toronto, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and London, he became professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, at Dartmouth College, and, since 1959, at the University of Toronto, where he has served also for eleven years as the first Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies. Author of seven books and many articles that record and illuminate Canada's international relations, the theory and practice of communism, and the struggle against repression in the satellite countries, he has been a vigorous defender of human rights in eastern Europe. For forty years Gordon Skilling has been a close observer and interpreter of the dramatic events in Czechoslovakia, most notably in his highly acclaimed study (1976) of the Interrupted Revolution of the 1960s and in a new book, in the press, on Charter 77 and Human Rights in Czechoslovakia. He is a man whose work provides models of scholarship at its best: tireless and fearless search of primary sources; analysis informed by historical perspective and imaginative insight; willingness to explore new concepts and welcome criticism; warm understanding with controlled sympathy; and a constant concern to share his findings in a form and style that is clear and readable, turning his own painstaking research into his readers' pleasure.
1979 - Marc-Adélard Tremblay, MSRC
Citation available in French only.
1977 - Harry G. Johnson
(Bilingual citation) Harry Johnson was one of the world's great economists. Having first studied and taught in Canada, and served in the Canadian forces, he pursued postgraduate studies at Cambridge, Toronto, and Harvard. His varied teaching career, at Manchester University, the London School of Economics, and the universities of Chicago and Geneva, gives an indication not only of the international demand for his services but of his great energy and productiveness. In addition he edited a number of journals and acted as consultant to the United States Treasury, the British National Institute of Economic and Social Research, the Brookings Institution, and the United Nations.
Ses écrits révèlent l'extrême étendue de ses compétences. De son propre aveu, ses domaines de prédilection sont la théorie du commerce international, la théorie et les institutions nationales sur le plan monétaire et financier, et la théorie économique générale ; mais il est difficile d'imaginer des domaines en économie politique auxquels il n'a pas apporté sa contribution. Ses articles couvrent l'histoire de la pensée économique ; la théorie et la pratique de la croissance économique et de la mise en valeur des pays en voie de développement ; l'économie de l'inflation , les statistiques portant sur l'équilibre des paiements ; la théorie des finances publiques ; l'aide étrangère ; les sociétés multinationales ; l'importance des syndicats ; le consommateur dans une société prospère, les migrations internationales ; le capital humain ; la fuite des cerveaux ; l'économie du nationalisme et de la pauvreté ; et la méthodologie des sciences sociales.
Though he worked much abroad, he remained in close touch with Canada and Canadian colleagues. He was a frequent visitor to the Queen's Economists Study group and similar "workshops" in other Canadian universities. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Banking and Finance, and he published a study that helped to shape the United States-Canada automobile tariff agreement. As president of the Canadian Political Science Association in 1966, he initiated arrangements leading to independent economic and political science associations. In the 1970s he was a prominent witness before Senate committees on unemployment and monetary policy, and served on a two-man task force reviewing economics departments in the Province of Ontario.
Si on considère l'effort titanesque qu'il a déployé, on ne s'étonnera pas qu'il ait subi une attaque cardiaque en 1973. Il avait quelque peu réduit ses voyages dans le monde entier, puisqu'il s'était établi à Chicago, tout en é tant rédacteur en chef du Journal of Political Economy. Mais la mort l'emporta au début du mois de mai, à Genève. C'est avant son décès qu'il a été choisi comme lauréat de la médaille, pour son importante contribution aux sciences sociales dont ont profité le Canada comme le monde entier. Il a pu accepter cette distinction avant de mourir.
Mr. President, I have the honour to request that the Innis-Gérin Medal be awarded posthumously to Harry G. Johnson. At his widow's request, Professor Anthony Scott will accept the medal".
1975 - Noël Mailloux
Citation available in French only.
1973 - Jean-Charles Falardeau
Citation available in French only.
1971 - Jacques Henripin
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1969 - Alexander Brady, FRSC
The Innis-Gérin Medal is intended to recognize "a distinguished and sustained contribution to the literature of the social sciences." It would be difficult to find a Canadian scholar who meets this specification more completely than the person I now present to you. As anyone who has spoken with him would know, Alexander Brady was born in Kilkenny; he is, nevertheless, a son of the University of Toronto. After further studies at Balliol College, Oxford, and three years spent in teaching at Wesley College, Winnipeg, he returned to Toronto in 1924 as a member of the university's Department of Political Economy; and in that department he still remains, as emeritus professor and until recently as special lecturer.To catalogue his writings fully would take half the evening, but I may at least mention his books. The first was a short biography of a fellow Irish-Canadian, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, published in 1925. Three years later he produced William Huskisson and Liberal Reform, an important contribution both to economic and imperial history. His rising reputation was reflected in his being invited to write the volume on Canada in the Modern World series edited by H. A. L. Fisher, which appeared in 1932. In 1947 he published a distinguished comparative study of governments in the Commonwealth under the title Democracy in the Dominion - a book that has passed through three editions. In addition to all this, he has been a prolific and always learned contributor to co-operative works and scholarly journals on Canadian and Commonwealth institutions, administration and politics, and a variety of other subjects. He has done his part to raise the standard of scholarship in the social sciences by organization as well as by example, very notably by his activity as chairman of the Research Committee of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. He was elected to Section II of the Royal Society of Canada in 1938. Mr. President, it is an honour and pleasure to present to you, for the award of the Innis-Gérin Medal for 1969, Dr. Alexander Brady.
1968 - Esdras Minville
Citation available in French only.
1967 - W.A. Mackintosh, FRSC
I have the honour to present to you for the Innis-Gérin Medal, Dr. W. A. Mackintosh. He was born in Madoc, Ontario, finished his High School work at St. Andrew's College, Toronto, graduated with his M.A. degree at Queen's in 1916, and a few years later acquired his Ph.D. at Harvard. He was a Lecturer at Brandon College from 1917 to 1919, and became a Professor at Queen's University in 1920. Over the next forty-five years he was a Professor, then a Dean, and then Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's, though he was absent from the University during World War II when he was a Special Assistant to the Government of Canada. Dr. Mackintosh, as a Canadian economist and political scientist, has been one of our major producers of books and learned articles. In 1924 he published a volume entitled Agricultural Co-operation in Western Canada. In 1929 he was the organizer and introducer of a two-volume production entitled Statistical Contributions to Canadian Economic History, of which Professor Curtis, Professor Michell, and I were the authors. In the mid-1930's he was the organizer and editor of nine excellent volumes on Canadian Frontiers of Settlement, and he was the direct author of two of those volumes, Prairie Settlement—the Geographical Setting, and Economic Problems of the Prairie Provinces. In 1936-37 he was a member and the joint author of the Royal Commission on National Employment. In 1939 he provided an excellent appendix volume issued by the Royal Commission on Dominion-provincial Relations. In 1941 he was the joint author of Canadian War Economics. In 1961-64 he was a member and joint author of the excellent Royal Commission on Banking and Finance.Throughout the past forty-five years he has published a very large number of excellent articles in most of our Canadian learned journals, and I should add that many of our fairly recent Canadian authors on economics and political science have quoted and referred to Dr. Mackintosh's previous publications. As I am sure you all know, Dr. Mackintosh was President of Section II of the Royal Society in 1950-51, President of the Royal Society in 1956-57, and now is Chairman of the Royal Society's Finance Committee. In addition he is a Director of the Bank of Canada and a member of its Executive Committee. In conclusion, I state—and all my colleagues fully agree—that Dr. Mackintosh has been and still is our most distinguished member in the Social Science area; so, Mr. President, I present him to you for the Innis-Gérin Medal.