Howard Alper

Howard Alper, OC FRSC (born October 17, 1941) is a Canadian chemist. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa. He is best known for his research of catalysis in chemistry.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science from Sir George Williams University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from McGill University in 1967. In 1968, he started teaching at the State University of New York and became an Associate Professor in 1971. He joined the University of Ottawa in 1975 as an Associate Professor and was appointed a Professor in 1978, later being made a Distinguished University Professor in 2006.

He was the Vice-President (Research) of the University of Ottawa from 1997–2006. From 2001 to 2003, he was the President of the Royal Society of Canada.

Dr. Alper is currently serving as the Chair of Canada’s Science, Technology and Innovation Council, and as one of the two co-chairs of the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues.

Honours

He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1984. In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2000, he was awarded the first Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, Canada's highest research honour in the field. In 2014, he was made a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.^[1]

References

• "University of Ottawa's Howard Alper First Winner of New NSERC Herzberg Medal". Retrieved January 24, 2006. 
• "Vice-President, Research biography". Retrieved January 24, 2006. 
• "Howard Alper, O.C, Ph.D., FRSC". Archived from the original on December 19, 2005. Retrieved January 24, 2006. 
• "NATO SA Science & Society Newsletter Issue No. 51, February/March 1999". Archived from the original on January 21, 2006. Retrieved January 24, 2006. 

External links

• Science, Technology and Innovation Council