Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow Limited
- Corporate body
- 1810-1975
Wm. Stairs, Son and Morrow Limited
Winnipeg Newspaper Union Mirror - MB
George Earle Wilson taught history at Dalhousie University from 1919-1969. He was hired as a lecturer in history and political economy just prior to the opening of the 1919-20 session, giving up a travelling fellowship at Harvard University. In 1921 Wilson was promoted to associate professor, and in 1925 to full professor and head of the history department. He also served as Dean of Arts and Science from 1945-1955 and was named professor emeritus in 1965, continuing to teach part-time until 1969, when he retired after five decades of service.
In 1950 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1961 he was elected President of the Humanities and Social Science section of the Society.
George Earl Wilson died on 7 June 1973. The Department of History continues to award the Dr. George E. Wilson Prize, which was established on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Class of 1927.
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Mary Anne White is a Canadian materials scientist who is the Harry Shirreff (Emerita) Professor of Chemical Research at Dalhousie University. Her research considers novel solar thermal materials and their application in renewable energy devices.
Born in 1953 in London, Ontario, White earned her BSc in chemistry from the University of Western Ontario. She completed graduate studies at McMaster University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and the University of Waterloo. After beginning her academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, in 1983 she joined Dalhousie, where she served as Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Director of the Institute for Research in Materials. In 2010, she established the Dalhousie Research in Energy, Advanced Materials and Sustainability (DREAMS) program. She was made Harry Shirreff Professor of Chemical Research Emerita in 2016.
Mary Anne White is the recipient of many awards and honours, including honorary doctorates from McMaster, Western and the University of Ottawa. She was appointed an Officer to the Order of Canada in 2016. She was also a regular contributor to the CBC Radio program Maritime Noon, answering listener science questions. She is married to Robert L. White, a biological chemist at Dalhousie University, with whom she has two children.