• Deceased
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Order of Canada

• Companion of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: June 23, 1980
  • Invested on: April 08, 1981

  Professor of Physiology at the University of British Columbia, and a biochemist of international renown. He has served on many scientific and medical bodies at home and abroad and is known particularly for his discovery of the hormone calcitonin. (This is a promotion within the Order).

• Officer of the Order of Canada

  • Awarded on: June 25, 1971
  • Invested on: October 29, 1971

  For his contribution to medicine as a teacher and for his research in the field of biochemistry.