In Memoriam: John William Lorimer

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Chemistry Department ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
The University

John (Jack) William Lorimer passed away peacefully at the age of 86 at University Hospital on Sunday, 1 February 2015. Born in Oshawa, Ontario, Jack attended the University of Toronto, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry. After positions in Leiden, The Netherlands, and with the National Research Council in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Jack joined the University of Western Ontario, where he taught and did research in the Chemistry Department until his retirement.

scholarly journals Editorial

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro De Gloria
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Italian National Research Council ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Learning Alliance ◽  
Games And Learning ◽  
The University

The present IJSG issue hosts a guest section dedicated to selected papers from the Games and Learning Alliance Conference (Gala Conf - conf.seriousgamessociety.org), that was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in December 2016. The guest editorial processed has been managed by Rosa Bottino, of the Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies, and by Johan Jeuring, of the University of Utrecht, who acted as conference chair [1].

James Bertram Collip, 1892-1965

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 234-267 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Pituitary Hormones ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Medical Importance ◽  
The University ◽  
Happy Family

James Bertram Collip was a pioneer in endocrine research, especially in its biochemical aspects. Following an excellent training in biochemistry under Professor A. B. Macallum, F.R.S., at the University of Toronto, he spent thirteen years at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. There was a momentous year at the University of Toronto about midway through the Edmonton period; this coincided with the discovery of insulin by Sir Frederick G. Banting, F.R.S., and Professor Charles S. Best, F.R.S., and the experience altered the course of his career. Henceforth, Professor Collip’s life was dominated by an urge to discover hormones that would be useful in clinical medicine. Success attended these efforts, first in the isolation of the parthyroid hormone, called parathormone, while he was at the University of Alberta and later in the identification of placental and pituitary hormones during particularly fruitful years at McGill University. There were other important facets to Professor Collip’s career. These included the training of young scientists, many of whom subsequently came to occupy positions of responsibility, work with the National Research Council of Canada, and in his latter years an important contribution as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. In addition to a life of fulfilment through accomplishments of scientific and medical importance, Professor Collip’s career was enriched by a happy family life and by the friendship of a host of individuals who were attracted to his brilliance as a scientist and his warm personality.

Heat Insulation as Applied to Buildings and Structures

1934 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Allcut
Keyword(s):  
Heat Insulation ◽  
Structural Strength ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Hot Plate ◽  
Insulating Materials ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Test Conditions ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The University ◽  
Plate Apparatus

The insulating materials and conditions described in the paper are those relating to such temperatures as are likely to be met with in heating, cooling, ventilating, or refrigerating practice. The symbols and nomenclature used are those adopted by the Committee on Heat Transmission of the National Research Council (U.S.A.). The first section describes respectively, the hot-plate and hot-box methods of testing, the former being the more suitable for materials which are comparatively homogeneous, and the latter for walls or other built-up sections. Illustrations are given of the hot-plate apparatus at the University of Toronto, on which much of the experimental work was performed. It is frequently impossible to compare tabulated values of heat conductivity because of differences in test conditions, and accordingly in the second section the effects of ( a) mean temperature and temperature coefficient, ( b) differences of temperature on the hot and cold sides, ( c) superficial pressure, ( d) surface resistance, and ( e) time effect, are considered in detail and an attempt is made to indicate their relative values. A table of characteristic conductivities is given at the end of the paper. The third section deals in a similar manner with the effects of differences in the materials themselves or in their application. These include the influence of: (1) size and thickness of samples, (2) laminated structure, (3) density of fibrous and cast materials, (4) air spaces in materials or structures, (5) moisture, and (6) infiltration of air or gases. The objective in all cases is to obtain the greatest insulating value per unit of cost, and this is not always favourable to the use of material having the lowest conductivity. Structural strength and resistance to fire, moisture, and vermin are frequently important factors. The paper concludes with some statistics concerning the production and consumption of insulating materials in Canada.

scholarly journals American Astronomers in Belgium, 1919: Snapshots from the Founding of the IAU

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 406-418
Author(s):  
James M. Lattis ◽  
Anthony J. Lattis
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Council Meeting ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University

AbstractThe USA delegation to the July 1919 International Research Council meeting in Brussels included Joel Stebbins, then professor of astronomy and observatory director at the University of Illinois, as secretary of the executive committee appointed by the National Research Council. Stebbins, an avid photographer, documented the travels of their party as the American astronomers attended the meeting and later toured devastated towns, scarred countryside, and battlefields only recently abandoned. Published reports of the meeting afterward attest to the impression left on the American visitors, and the photographs by Stebbins give us a glimpse through their own eyes. Selected photographs, recently discovered in the University of Wisconsin Archives and never before publicly seen, will be presented along with some commentary on their significance for the International Astronomical Union, which took shape at that 1919 meeting.

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