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Choose a category to show related flashcards.Skip Navigation LinksInsulin is a hormone which helps to treat diabetes. It has saved 16 million lives worldwide. Discovered by Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best.
Sir Frederick Banting & Charles Best
Canadians who discovered insulin.
Canadian inventor. Thought of the idea of the telephone.
Canadian inventor. He invented the snowmobile. The snowmobile was the first light-weight winter vehicle.
Canadian inventor. He invented the worldwide system of time zones.
Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward
They worked together to invent the first electric light bulb. They later sold the patent to Thomas Edison, who is famous for making the light bulb available for commercial sale.
Canadian inventor who helped to invent the radio by sending the first wireless voice message.
He was a brain surgeon at McGill University in Montreal. He helped to discover new ways to do surgery.
He invented the Pacemaker, which can send electrical impulses to the heart to help the heart to beat correctly.
SPAR Aerospace/National Research Council
They invented the Canadarm. The Canadarm is a big robotic arm that attaches to a spacecraft. It helps astronauts to do work in space.
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie
They are each famous for being a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Research in Motion (RIM), a wireless communications company that produced the BlackBerry.
Marshall McLuhan & Harold Innis
Famous Canadian thinkers in the area of communication.
A big Canadian-built robotic arm that attaches to a spacecraft. It helps astronauts to do work in space.
Name 7 Canadian Nobel Prize-winning scientists
(1) Gerhard Herzberg (a refugee from Nazi Germany) (2) Frederick G. Banting (3) John Polanyi (4) Sidney Altman (5) Richard E. Taylor (6) Michael Smith (7) Bertram Brockhouse
