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Top 100 Scientists in Canada

The most publicly visible scientists in Canada.

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The most famous scientists in Canada right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Donna Strickland	Canada	Scientists	62.0	0.0
#2	—	Ann Makosinski	Canada	Scientists	60.7	0.0
#3	—	James Naismith	Canada	Scientists	58.2	1.7
#4	—	Louis Slotin	Canada	Scientists	57.1	0.0
#5	—	GB Gerald Bull	Canada	Scientists	57.0	21.3
#6	—	Bertram Brockhouse	Canada	Scientists	56.5	5.1
#7	—	Hubert Reeves	Canada	Scientists	56.3	5.2
#8	—	Jim Peebles	Canada	Scientists	56.2	1.8
#9	—	Willard Boyle	Canada	Scientists	55.5	0.0
#10	—	Walter Kohn	Canada	Scientists	55.3	3.1
#11	—	Arthur B. McDonald	Canada	Scientists	55.0	0.0
#12	—	Richard E. Taylor	Canada	Scientists	54.8	0.2
#13	—	Louis Jolliet	Canada	Scientists	54.7	16.1
#14	—	James Gosling	Canada	Scientists	54.1	0.0
#15	—	Simon Newcomb	Canada	Scientists	54.0	3.5
#16	—	Wendy Freedman	Canada	Scientists	53.4	5.8
#17	—	WK William Kwong Yu Yeung	Canada	Scientists	53.3	25.0
#18	—	John Polanyi	Canada	Scientists	53.1	0.0
#19	—	Ralph M. Steinman	Canada	Scientists	53.1	0.1
#20	—	Vilhjalmur Stefansson	Canada	Scientists	53.1	1.5
#21	—	Gilles Brassard	Canada	Scientists	53.0	6.0
#22	—	Ludwig von Bertalanffy	Canada	Scientists	52.9	0.0
#23	—	Rudolph A. Marcus	Canada	Scientists	52.6	0.0
#24	—	Alice Eastwood	Canada	Scientists	52.2	8.3
#25	—	Gerhard Herzberg	Canada	Scientists	52.0	0.2
#26	—	Michael Smith	Canada	Scientists	51.8	0.0
#27	—	Sandford Fleming	Canada	Scientists	51.7	0.2
#28	—	Reginald Fessenden	Canada	Scientists	51.7	0.0
#29	—	Ursula Franklin	Canada	Scientists	51.5	0.0
#30	—	Maud Menten	Canada	Scientists	51.3	0.0
#31	—	Félix d'Hérelle	Canada	Scientists	51.1	0.0
#32	—	Joseph-Armand Bombardier	Canada	Scientists	51.1	0.0
#33	—	Helen Sawyer Hogg	Canada	Scientists	50.8	0.0
#34	—	Aloha Wanderwell	Canada	Scientists	50.2	17.4
#35	—	Arthur Jeffrey Dempster	Canada	Scientists	49.0	0.5
#36	—	BJ Brett J. Gladman	Canada	Scientists	48.8	0.4
#37	—	Donnacona	Canada	Scientists	48.7	15.2
#38	—	BB Bruce Bagemihl	Canada	Scientists	48.5	3.9
#39	—	Harriet Brooks	Canada	Scientists	48.5	0.5
#40	—	John Murray	Canada	Scientists	48.5	0.0
#41	—	Allan H. MacDonald	Canada	Scientists	48.3	4.7
#42	—	Joe Juneau	Canada	Scientists	47.9	2.0
#43	—	Don Page	Canada	Scientists	47.9	0.0
#44	—	Steve Mann	Canada	Scientists	47.5	0.0
#45	—	Joseph Tyrrell	Canada	Scientists	47.3	3.3
#46	—	Hugh Ross	Canada	Scientists	47.1	0.1
#47	—	C. Donald Bateman	Canada	Scientists	47.0	24.9
#48	—	KL Keith L. Moore	Canada	Scientists	46.3	0.0
#49	—	Keish	Canada	Scientists	46.0	0.7
#50	—	WI Werner Israel	Canada	Scientists	46.0	0.4
#51	—	W. G. Unruh	Canada	Scientists	46.0	0.2
#52	—	MC Michel Chrétien	Canada	Scientists	45.7	10.0
#53	—	George Mercer Dawson	Canada	Scientists	45.4	0.0
#54	—	Horatio Hale	Canada	Scientists	45.4	10.0
#55	—	PC Paul Corkum	Canada	Scientists	45.2	0.0
#56	—	Jacob Schick	Canada	Scientists	45.2	0.6
#57	—	LU Lewis Urry	Canada	Scientists	45.1	18.2
#58	—	John William Dawson	Canada	Scientists	45.0	0.0
#59	—	Alice Wilson	Canada	Scientists	44.8	0.0
#60	—	Walter Zinn	Canada	Scientists	44.8	0.0
#61	—	JJ John J. Kavelaars	Canada	Scientists	44.8	16.5
#62	—	William Grant Stairs	Canada	Scientists	44.8	8.1
#63	—	FT Frederick Traugott Pursh	Canada	Scientists	44.7	3.8
#64	—	John Stanley Plaskett	Canada	Scientists	44.6	0.0
#65	—	Joseph-Elzéar Bernier	Canada	Scientists	44.6	4.8
#66	—	Robert F. Christy	Canada	Scientists	44.5	0.0
#67	—	Rebecca Elson	Canada	Scientists	44.5	2.5
#68	—	Dale Frail	Canada	Scientists	44.5	0.0
#69	—	Pierre Dansereau	Canada	Scientists	44.5	6.4
#70	—	MS Molly Shoichet	Canada	Scientists	44.4	15.0
#71	—	John Moffat	Canada	Scientists	44.3	0.0
#72	—	Martin Kamen	Canada	Scientists	44.3	0.0
#73	—	SF Sylvia Fedoruk	Canada	Scientists	44.1	0.0
#74	—	Mark Tilden	Canada	Scientists	44.0	8.6
#75	—	RP Robert Pound	Canada	Scientists	43.9	0.7
#76	—	J. Richard Bond	Canada	Scientists	43.9	5.7
#77	—	Alfred J. Gross	Canada	Scientists	43.8	0.0
#78	—	Alfred Bader	Canada	Scientists	43.7	0.2
#79	—	SV Sidney van den Bergh	Canada	Scientists	43.6	0.0
#80	—	Raymond Laflamme	Canada	Scientists	43.5	5.3
#81	—	David Charbonneau	Canada	Scientists	43.3	0.2
#82	—	Chiara M. F. Mingarelli	Canada	Scientists	42.8	1.8
#83	—	Ted Hsu	Canada	Scientists	42.8	0.2
#84	—	Alexandra Morton	Canada	Scientists	42.7	2.0
#85	—	Paul D. N. Hebert	Canada	Scientists	42.7	10.3
#86	—	Philip S. Lee	Canada	Scientists	42.6	7.8
#87	—	Peter Norman Nissen	Canada	Scientists	42.6	0.0
#88	—	William Francis Ganong	Canada	Scientists	42.5	3.2
#89	—	ST Scott Tremaine	Canada	Scientists	42.5	0.8
#90	—	Carlyle Smith Beals	Canada	Scientists	42.4	0.0
#91	—	Margaret Sibella Brown	Canada	Scientists	42.3	0.0
#92	—	Spencer Charles Hilton Barrett	Canada	Scientists	42.2	8.8
#93	—	Carrie Matilda Derick	Canada	Scientists	42.0	0.0
#94	—	Arthur Henry Reginald Buller	Canada	Scientists	42.0	2.9
#95	—	MB Mark B. Wise	Canada	Scientists	42.0	15.0
#96	—	Roxana Moslehi	Canada	Scientists	41.9	10.0
#97	—	Raymond Lemieux	Canada	Scientists	41.7	0.0
#98	—	Clarence Chant	Canada	Scientists	41.7	4.4
#99	—	Hugh Le Caine	Canada	Scientists	41.6	0.3
#100	—	CM Clifford Martin Will	Canada	Scientists	41.5	0.0

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