Jacques Rousseau Award is an award given by the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) to an individual or group who develop bridges between scientific disciplines. The award is named for Jacques Rousseau who was both a botanist and an anthropologist. He was a former secretary of the ACFAS.

Laureates

* 1981 : Louis Berlinguet *1982 :

Gilles Paquet Gilles Paquet, (July 19, 1936 – January 18, 2019) was a Canadian economist, President of the Royal Society of Canada from 2003 to 2005. He was professor emeritus at the School of Management and senior research fellow at the Centre on Governance ...

*1983 :

Larkin Kerwin John Larkin Kerwin (June 22, 1924 – May 1, 2004) was a Canadian physicist. Born in Quebec City, he studied physics at St. Francis Xavier University and obtained his master's degree in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. H ...

*1984 : Fernand Dumont *1985 :

Gérard Bouchard Gérard Bouchard (born 1943) is a Canadian historian and sociologist affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born on 26 December 1943 in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval ...

*1986 : Fernand Roberge *1987 :

Michael Florian Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * he He ..., a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name * Michael (bishop elect)">Michael (surname)">he He ..., a given nam ...

*1988 : André Roch Lecours *1989 : Henri Dorion *1990 : Paul Brazeau *1991 : Jean-Charles Chebat *1992 : Ferdinand Bonn *1993 : Karen Messing *1994 : Régine Robin *1995 :

Albert Bregman Albert Stanley Bregman (September 15, 1936 – May 18, 2023) was a Canadian academic and researcher in experimental psychology, cognitive science, and Gestalt psychology, primarily in the perceptual organization of sound. Bregman was known for ...

*1998 : Rodolphe De Koninck *1999 : Gilbert Laporte *2000 : Michel Laroche *2001 : Normand Séguin *2002 : Richard E Tremblay *2003 :

Leon Glass Leon Glass (born 1943) is an American scientist who has studied various aspects of the application of mathematical and physical methods to biology, with special interest in vision, cardiac arrhythmia, and genetic networks. Biography Leon Gl ...

* 2004 : No award * 2005 : No award * 2006 : No award * 2007 : Yves Gingras * 2008 : Pierre Hansen, researching

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and

management Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a Government agency, government bodies through business administration, Nonprofit studies, nonprofit management, or the political s ...

, HEC Montréal * 2009 :

Isabelle Peretz Isabelle Peretz (born 1956) is a professor of psychology at the University of Montreal, holding a Canada Research Chair and Casavant Chair in neurocognition of music. She specializes in music cognition, focusing on congenital and acquired musica ...

, researching

neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

and music, Montreal University * 2010 : Louise Vandelac, researching

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

and environment , Université du Québec à Montréal * 2011 :

Bartha Knoppers Bartha Maria Knoppers, Order of Canada, OC National Order of Quebec, OQ (born May 26, 1951) is a Canadians, Canadian law Professor and an expert on the ethical aspects of genetics, genomics and biotechnology. Born in Hilversum, Netherlands, she r ...

, researching ethics and

biotechnology Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and Engineering Science, engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services. Specialists ...

McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...

* 2012 : Mohamad Sawan, researching implants,

École Polytechnique de Montréal École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

* 2013 : Yves De Koninck, researching

s, Université Laval * 2014 : Sylvain Martel, researching

nanorobotics Nanoid robotics, or for short, nanorobotics or nanobotics, is an emerging technology field creating machines or robots, which are called nanorobots or simply nanobots, whose components are at or near the scale of a nanometer (10−9 meters). ...

* 2015 : Carl-Éric Aubin, researching genetic biomédical,

* 2016 : André-Pierre Contandriopoulos

References

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