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Here Are 8 Awesome Canadian Scientists
Happy Canada Day! In honor of our favorite nation of hockey players, poutine-eaters, and syrup swiggers, we’re spotlighting eight Canadian scientists who’ve made big impacts in their fields and in the world.
Canada has a huge number of people in the sciences, so we’re barely scratching the surface.
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Who would you include on your list?
Roger Tomlinson
Roger Tomlinson invented the GIS, Geographic Information Systems, the system for visualizing data on maps. Sure, data’s been put on maps before, like John Snow’s famous data visualization about cholera outbreaks in London.
But Tomlinson took the field a vast leap forward while mapping plots of arable land for the Canada Land Inventory in the 60s. GIS lets you search through and cut up the data, helping researchers solve problems that maps or data alone might not do.
His invention has come a long way and is used by city planners and data visualizers around the wor