List of People From Quebec - Sciences

Sciences

  • Sidney Altman, Nobel Prize winner
  • Pierre Dansereau, father of ecology
  • Paul David, cardiologist
  • George Mercer Dawson, scientist
  • Reginald Fessenden, inventor
  • Armand Frappier, researcher in microbiology and immunology
  • David H. Levy, astronomer
  • William Edmond Logan, geologist
  • Rudolph A. Marcus, 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Wilder Penfield, neurosurgeon, medical scientist
  • Simon Plouffe (1956- ), mathematician & discoverer of the BBP formula
  • Hubert Reeves (1932- ), astrophysicist
  • Marc Garneau (1949- ), astronaut, first Quebecer & Canadian in space
  • Julie Payette (1963- ), astronaut, first Quebec woman in space
  • Henri Wittmann, linguist
  • Hans Selye, inventor of the concept of physiological stress

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