List of presidents of the National Research Council of Canada

The National Research Council of Canada is a major federal research institution in Canada, founded in 1916 as the Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Originally a loose federation of scientific experts advising the government, it was given an executive body in 1923 (when the first President was appointed) and received funds to establish a laboratory in 1928, which opened in 1932.

Presidents

Name Term Scientific background
Henry Marshall Tory 1923-1935 mathematics
A.G.L. MacNaughton 1935-1939 civil engineering
C.J. Mackenzie 1939-1952 civil engineering
E.W.R. Steacie 1952-1962 physical chemistry
Bristow Guy Ballard[1] 1962-1967 electrical engineering
W.G. Schneider[2] 1967-1980 pure chemistry
J. Larkin Kerwin 1980-1989 physics
Pierre O. Perron[3] 1989-1994 metallurgy
Arthur Carty 1994-2004 inorganic chemistry
Michael Raymont [4] 2004-2005 (acting) chemistry
Pierre Coulombe[5] 2005-2010 medicine
John McDougall[6] 2010-present environmental engineering

References

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