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101 Interesting Facts About Canada ~ Nobel Prizes

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Frederick Banting
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John Macleod

Did you know that as of 2019 Canada has 27 Nobel Prize Laureates?


Strickland during Nobel press conference in Stockholm, December 2018
Donna Strickland

I found this article and video online about Donna Strickland, only the second Canadian woman to win a Nobel Prize (Alice Monro was first), and the very first Canadian woman to win a Nobel Prize for science.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/list-of-canadians-who-have-won-the-nobel-prize-1.4117675

There is a discrepancy between CTV's list of winners and Wikipeida's.  

CTV did not include John Macleod who was co-winner of the prize with Frederick Banting, or Michael Spence (maybe because he is Canadian/American?).  Jim Peebles is only missing because the article is from 2018 and Peebles won in 2019.


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Jim Peebles

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