Congratulations to Prof. Dave Shoesmith, SSW’s Director, on being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Fellows are elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement. Election to the academies of the Royal Society of Canada is the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.
Prof. Shoesmith’s Nomination Citation:
David Shoesmith is an internationally renowned corrosion chemist. He works toward a solution of a key environmental problem faced by today’s society, i.e., the safe disposal of nuclear waste. His studies are also of fundamental importance for the oil and gas sector, providing a framework for addressing pipeline integrity issues. Shoesmith’s electrochemical and surface analytical techniques, as well as his paradigm-changing modelling approaches have been adopted by countries around the world.
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