Canada Council of the Arts and Izaak Walton Killam

Izaak Walton Killam: Winners of the annual Killam Prize, administered by the Canada Council of the Arts, each receive $100,000. The awards were endowed by Dorothy Killam in memory of her late husband, Canadian industrialist Izaak Walton Killam, according to CTV. -- Sajeev John, University of Toronto , a physicist and pioneering theoretician in photonic band gap PBG materials, a new class of optical materials sometimes referred to as "semiconductors of light." His work has the potential to help save lives as PBG materials could eventually be used for optical communications processing, clinical medicine, lighting and solar energy harvesting and - Five of the country's top scholars and scientists have been named winners of the 2014 Killam Prize, created to honour Canadians who have made contributions to research that has had far-reaching national and international impact. The winners are: (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.