Twelve Canadian scientists have won the Nobel Prize:

• Sid Altman, Nobel Chemistry 1989 for Catalytic RNA
• Sir Frederick Banting, Nobel Medicine 1923 for Discovering Insulin
• Willard Boyle, Nobel Physics 2009 for Discovering the Charge Coupled Device
• Bert Brockhouse, Nobel Physics 1994 for Condensed Matter
• Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Chemistry 1971 for Molecular Spectroscopy
• David Hubel, Nobel Medicine 1981 for Mapping the Visual Cortex
• Rudolph Marcus, Nobel Chemistry 1992 for Electron Transfer Reactions (e.g.: Rust)
• John Polanyi, Nobel Chemistry 1986 for Chemi- luminescence
• Michael Smith, Nobel Chemistry 1993 for Site-Based Mutagenesis
• Jack Szostak, Nobel Medicine 2009 for discovery of how Telomeres work.
• Henry Taube, Nobel Chemistry 1983 for Electron Transfer Reactions
• Richard Taylor, Nobel Physics 1990 for verifying the Quark Theory