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page 1Scientists from Toronto

John Polanyi
Hungarian-Canadian chemist
Birutė Galdikas
Lithuanian-Canadian primatologist conservationist (1946–2026)
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
Lawrence M. Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist

William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1933)

David Easton
Canadian academic (1917-2014)
Sara Seager
Canadian astronomer and planetary scientist
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Canadian mathematician (1923–2017)
Wendy Freedman
Canadian-American astronomer
Andrej Karpathy
Slovakian-Canadian AI researcher (born 1986)
Katharine Hayhoe
Canadian atmospheric scientist
Maria Klawe
Canadian-American computer scientist
Irving Kaplansky
Canadian mathematician (1917–2006)
Martin Kamen
American biochemist and molecular biologist (1913–2002)
Shirley M. Tilghman
Canadian Molecular Biologist, scholar and academic administrator
R. Brent Tully
American astronomer
Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist (1870–1947)
Ernest McCulloch
Canadian cellular biologist (1926-2011)

Michèle Lamont
Canadian sociologist
Sheena Iyengar
Professor at Columbia Business School
Scott Tremaine
Canadian astrophysicist
Molly Shoichet
Canadian biomedical engineer

Harry Hemley Plaskett
Canadian astronomer (1893-1980)

Lisa Feldman Barrett
Canadian American psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist
Irene Uchida
Canadian biologist
Eugenia Kumacheva
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto
J. Richard Bond
Canadian astrophysicist and cosmologist
Ken Money
Canadian high jumper and scientist
Kurt Freund
Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist (1914–1996)
Jonathan Schaeffer
Canadian computer scientist
Paul F. Hoffman
Canadian geologist
Tak Wah Mak
Canadian biochemist
James Stewart
Canadian mathematician, born 1941 (1941–2014)
Judith Pipher
American astrophysicist and observational astronomer
Elliott Jaques
Canadian psychoanalyst and organizational psychologist (1917-2003)
Donald B. Gillies
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (1929–1975)
Nathan Mendelsohn
Canadian mathematician
Helen Freedhoff
Canadian theoretical physicist (1940–2017)
Peter Millman
Canadian astronomer (1906–1990)
Ross Honsberger
Canadian mathematician (1929–2016)
Nancy Fern Olivieri
Canadian haematologist
George F. D. Duff
Canadian mathematician (1926–2001)
Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson
Canadian mathematician (1906-1992)
Isaac Abella
physicist (1934-2016)
Donald Sadoway
Professor of Materials Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Frieda Fraser
Canadian physician (1899-1994)
Laurent C. Siebenmann
French mathematician
Douglas Harold Copp
scientist, discoverer of calcitonin (1915-1998)

Marc A. Kastner
American physicist
P. R. Wallace
Canadian physicist (1915–2006)
Ailana Fraser
Canadian mathematician
Geng Tan
Canadian politician
Eduard Prugovečki
Physicist and mathematician (1937-2003)
Yonina Eldar
Israeli academic and engineer
Richard Summerbell
Canadian mycologist
Melissa Franklin
particle physicist
Albert Bregman
Canadian psychology professor and auditory researcher (1936–2023)

Fred Urquhart
researcher at the University of Toronto (1911–2002)
Martin Daly
Canadian psychologist
Charles Colbourn
Canadian computer scientist and mathematician