List of presidents of the National Research Council of Canada

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The National Research Council of Canada is a major federal research institution in Canada, founded in 1916 as the Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Originally a loose federation of scientific experts advising the government, it was given an executive body in 1928 (when the first President was appointed) and received funds to establish a laboratory in the same year, which opened in 1932.

Presidents

NameTermScientific background
Henry Marshall Tory 1924-1935 mathematics
A.G.L. McNaughton 1935-1939 civil engineering
C.J. Mackenzie 1939-1952 civil engineering
E.W.R. Steacie 1952-1962 physical chemistry
Bristow Guy Ballard [1] 1962-1967 electrical engineering
W.G. Schneider [2] 1967-1980 pure chemistry
J. Larkin Kerwin 1980-1989 physics
Pierre O. Perron [3] 1989-1994 metallurgy
Arthur Carty 1994-2004 inorganic chemistry
Michael Raymont [4] 2004-2005 (acting) chemistry
Pierre Coulombe [5] 2005-2010 medicine
John R. McDougall [6] 2010-2016 petroleum engineering
Iain Stewart [7] 2016-2020 political science and marine policy
Mitch Davies [8] 2021–Present

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