1967 Fredericton Encaenia
Lemieux, Raymond Urgel
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Colin B. Mackay, Sir Max Aitken, Raymond Urgel Lemieux
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Source: UA PC-4 no.14v; Photo by Joe Stone and Son Ltd.
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1967
RAYMOND URGEL LEMIEUX
to be Doctor of Science
In our centennial homage to Canadian Science we honour the chemist, Dr. Lemieux.
The crown of a career, which has included his contribution to the structure of streptomycin, has been his work on the structure and reactions of carbohydrates. As a world authority in this vital field he was in April elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
He is the only Canadian among thirty-two whom that ancient and venerable body has this year selected for membership, and the thirty-first Canadian ever to be so honoured.
This is more than reflected glory for the schools of Alberta and for the University at Edmonton, from which he graduated with honours in 1943 and to which, after invaluable labours at other seats of learning, he returned as Professor in 1961. It was at the Prairie Research Laboratory on the Saskatchewan campus that in 1953 he completed the extremely difficult synthesis of sucrose. In recent years his research has embraced a great variety of carbohydrates because, in his own view, of the possibility they hold for the development of synthetic antibiotics.
This penetrating manipulator of the molecule has not yet turned forty-seven. We wish him as many faithful years to come. And if only, during these, his achievements in carbohydrate anti-biotics can blossom into carbohydrate antilipids -- let us avoid the plain English of that 3-lettered foe to our maturing waistlines -- he will deserve not a hood but a halo!
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
RAYMOND URGEL LEMIEUX
to be Doctor of Science
In our centennial homage to Canadian Science we honour the chemist, Dr. Lemieux.
The crown of a career, which has included his contribution to the structure of streptomycin, has been his work on the structure and reactions of carbohydrates. As a world authority in this vital field he was in April elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
He is the only Canadian among thirty-two whom that ancient and venerable body has this year selected for membership, and the thirty-first Canadian ever to be so honoured.
This is more than reflected glory for the schools of Alberta and for the University at Edmonton, from which he graduated with honours in 1943 and to which, after invaluable labours at other seats of learning, he returned as Professor in 1961. It was at the Prairie Research Laboratory on the Saskatchewan campus that in 1953 he completed the extremely difficult synthesis of sucrose. In recent years his research has embraced a great variety of carbohydrates because, in his own view, of the possibility they hold for the development of synthetic antibiotics.
This penetrating manipulator of the molecule has not yet turned forty-seven. We wish him as many faithful years to come. And if only, during these, his achievements in carbohydrate anti-biotics can blossom into carbohydrate antilipids -- let us avoid the plain English of that 3-lettered foe to our maturing waistlines -- he will deserve not a hood but a halo!
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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