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Canadians Who Innovate: The Trailblazers and Ideas That Are Changing the World
Profiles of some of the most inventive and creative Canadians and the ideas that are making Canada a leading nation in innovation.
From saving lives to saving harvests...
From discovering ancient diamonds to identifying the first exo-planet...
From driverless cars to quantum computers...
From Nobel laureates to your next-door neighbor...
This book offers uplifting stories of innovative Canadians.
Canadians Who Innovate includes two Nobel laureates, an astronaut, extraordinary business leaders, the godfathers of artificial intelligence, and top quantum experts, including the inventor of what may be the next quantum computer. It features profiles of the first director of engineering at Google, who is now working on nuclear fusion; a medical researcher who communicates on TikTok about the efficacy and potential for RNA vaccine technology; and a PhD in nuclear physics who has twice won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Meet the linguist who works with Indigenous people to make online dictionaries, an internationally consulted specialist on migration, an agri-tech investor, a world specialist on permafrost, and the expert in systems and number theory who has a way to fix health care. And don’t forget the engineer who grew human cells on apples, a feat that is leading to the creation of replacement organs that do not require donors—not to be confused with the aerospace technology developer who created a tethering system to clean up space debris and a 3-D printer that prints biological tissue.
Featuring brilliant thinkers from coast to coast to coast, and others from around the world who now call Canada home, Canadians Who Innovate paints a promising picture of a cleaner, healthier, more innovative future for us all.
From saving lives to saving harvests...
From discovering ancient diamonds to identifying the first exo-planet...
From driverless cars to quantum computers...
From Nobel laureates to your next-door neighbor...
This book offers uplifting stories of innovative Canadians.
Canadians Who Innovate includes two Nobel laureates, an astronaut, extraordinary business leaders, the godfathers of artificial intelligence, and top quantum experts, including the inventor of what may be the next quantum computer. It features profiles of the first director of engineering at Google, who is now working on nuclear fusion; a medical researcher who communicates on TikTok about the efficacy and potential for RNA vaccine technology; and a PhD in nuclear physics who has twice won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Meet the linguist who works with Indigenous people to make online dictionaries, an internationally consulted specialist on migration, an agri-tech investor, a world specialist on permafrost, and the expert in systems and number theory who has a way to fix health care. And don’t forget the engineer who grew human cells on apples, a feat that is leading to the creation of replacement organs that do not require donors—not to be confused with the aerospace technology developer who created a tethering system to clean up space debris and a 3-D printer that prints biological tissue.
Featuring brilliant thinkers from coast to coast to coast, and others from around the world who now call Canada home, Canadians Who Innovate paints a promising picture of a cleaner, healthier, more innovative future for us all.
336 pages, Hardcover
Published May 7, 2024
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May 31, 2024
Thank you to Simon and Schuster Canada for sending me this ARC. Was so interesting to learn about things that were imagined and brought to life in Canada.
Did Not Finish
July 31, 2025This is barely a DNF - I just don't want to read this, I'm sorry.
March 29, 2024
Canadians Who Innovate: The Trailblazers and Ideas That Are Changing the World is a compilation of profiles on some of the Canada's most creative minds.
The book focuses on the brilliant people behind the some of the greatest advancements in business, medicine, saving the environment, quantum theory (it's really more interesting than it sounds), machine learning, engineering, physics and social innovation.
Many of these innovators and inventors were immigrants to Canada and now call our country home. It was so empowering to read about the upbringing that laid the foundation for these bright minds to develop life saving vaccines, artificial intelligence and a number of technological advancements.
Thank you to Simon & Schuster Canada and Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advanced digital copy. Opinions are my own.
The book focuses on the brilliant people behind the some of the greatest advancements in business, medicine, saving the environment, quantum theory (it's really more interesting than it sounds), machine learning, engineering, physics and social innovation.
Many of these innovators and inventors were immigrants to Canada and now call our country home. It was so empowering to read about the upbringing that laid the foundation for these bright minds to develop life saving vaccines, artificial intelligence and a number of technological advancements.
Thank you to Simon & Schuster Canada and Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advanced digital copy. Opinions are my own.
November 12, 2024
Pretty disappointed this book had spelling mistakes and a random mix of trailblazers.
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