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: 1971-06-25
Invested on: 1971-10-29
For his contribution to medicine as a teacher and for his research in the field of biochemistry.