Astronauts
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Chris Hadfield
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Astronaut, musician, scientist. Talk about an over-achiever. My Canadian hero
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Marc Garneau
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Astronaut and scientist, now Transportation Minister for Liberal government
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Roberta Bondar
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Astronaut and scientist
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Other
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James Gosling
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Inventor of Java
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David Suzuki
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Geneticist, science broadcaster, "The Nature of Things"
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HSM Coxeter
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World renowned mathematician, developer of Coxeter groups
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J.C. Fields
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Mathematician, founder of the Shields Medal
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David Levy
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Astronomer, comet hunter, co-discoverer of Shoemaker-Levy comet that hit Jupiter
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Chemists
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Gerhard Gerzberg
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chemist, 1971 Nobel Prize
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Heny Taube
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chemist, 1983 Nobel Prize
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John Polyanyi
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chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize
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Michael Smith
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chemist, 1993 Nobel Prize
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William F. Giauque
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chemist, 1949 Nobel Prize
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Rudolph Marcus
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chemist, 1992 Nobel Prize
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Sidney Altman
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chemist, 1989 Nobel Prize
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Physicists
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John F. Allen
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physicist, co-discoverer of superfluidity
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Richard Taylor
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physicist, 1990 Nobel Prize
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Arthur Schawlow
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physicist, 1981 Nobel Prize
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Bertram Brockhouse
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physicist, 1994 Nobel Prize
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inventor, telephone, waterfoil
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Economics
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Andrew Michael Spence
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economist, 2001 Nobel Prize
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Myron Scholes
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economist, 1997 Nobel Prize
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William Vickrey
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economist, 1996 Nobel Prize
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Medicine
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Norman Bethune
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medical doctor, more known in China than in Canada, hero to the Chinese.
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Sir William Osler
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"most influential physician in history"
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David Hubel
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1981 Nobel Prize in medicine
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Frederic Banting
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Discovered insulin, won Nobel Prize for Medicine
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Charles Best
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did much of work with Banting to discover insulin, did not win Nobel Prize
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Alkaline Battery
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Lewis Urry
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1959
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Ardox Spiral Nail
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Allan Dove
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1954
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Basketball
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James Naismith
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1892
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Birch Bark Canoe
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First Nations
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Auto Lubricating Cup
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Elijah McCoy (son of former slaves)
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1872
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Blackberry
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Mike Lazaridis
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1999
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Bloody Caesar
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Walter Chell
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1969
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Canadarm
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Spar AeroSpace NRC
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1975
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Caulking Gun
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Theodore Witte
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1894
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C-60 Cancer Treatment
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Harold Johns
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1951
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CPR-Mannequin
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Dianne Croteau, Richard Brault
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1989
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Crash Position Indicator
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Harry Stevinson
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1957
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Dump Truck
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Robert Mawhinney
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1920
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Egg Carton
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Joseph Coyle
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1911
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Electric Shaver
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Jacob Schick
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1923
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Electric Oven
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Thomas Ahearn
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1882
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Electric Wheelchair
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George Klein
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1952
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Electron Microscope
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James Hillier, Arthur Prebus
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1939
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Electronic Music Synthesizer
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Hugh Le Caine
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1945
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Explosives Vapour Detector
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Lorne Elias
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1985
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Five Pin Bowling
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Thomas E. Ryan
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1908
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Fog Horn
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Robert Foulis
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1853
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Goalie Mask
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Jacques Plante
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1959
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Green Garbage Bag
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Harry Wasylyk, Larry Hansen
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G-suit
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Wilbur Rounding Franks
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1941
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Instant Mashed Potatoes
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Edward Asselbergs
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1962
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Instant Replay
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CBC Hockey Night in Canada
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1955
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Insulin
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Frederik Banting, Charles Best
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1921
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Java Program Language
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James Arthur Gosling
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1994
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Key Frame Animation
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Nestor Burtnyk, Marcelli Wein
Won Academy Award in 1997
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1970
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Lacrosse
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First Nations
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Light bulb
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Henry Woodward, Mathew Evans
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1874
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Marine Screw Propeller
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John Patch
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1833
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Marquis Wheat
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Sir Charles Saunders
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1908
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Pablum
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Alan Brown, Theodore Drake, Fred Tisdall
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1930
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Pacemaker
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John Hopps, Wilfred Bigelow, John Callahan
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Paint Roller
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Norman Breakey
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1940
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Peanut Butter
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Plexiglass
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William Chalmers, McGill U.
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1931
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Poutine
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Fernand Lachance
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1957
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Radio voice Transmission
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Reginald Fessenden
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1937
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Robertson Screw
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Peter Robertson
The best screw ever developed.
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1900
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Self-propelled Combine Harvester
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Thomas Carroll
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1908
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Separable Baggage Check
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John Mitchell Lyons
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1882
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Trivial Pursuit
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Chris Haney and Scott Abbott
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First Commercial Radio Broadcast
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CFCF in Montreal
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1919
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KDKA in USA was months after CFCF
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