Killam Prize

The Killam Prize (previously the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize) was established according to the will of Dorothy J. Killam to honour the memory of her husband Izaak Walton Killam.

Five Killam Prizes, each having a value of $100,000, were awarded annually by the Canada Council for the Arts to eminent Canadian researchers who distinguish themselves in the fields of social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, health sciences, or engineering.

In August 2021, the Canada Council announced it would transition the administration of the Killam program to the National Research Council Canada (NRC) by March 2022.

The restructured Killam Program was officially launched under the administration of the NRC in April 2022. It is now called the National Killam Program and consists of the Killam Prizes, the Dorothy Killam Fellowships and the Killam NRC Paul Corkum Fellowships.

Recipients

Year[1]	Winner	Affiliation	Field
1976	Harold Williams	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Natural Sciences
1978	Harold Williams	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Natural Sciences
1981	Feroze N. Ghadially [Wikidata]	University of Saskatchewan	Health Sciences
	Raymond Lemieux	University of Alberta	Natural Sciences
	Louis Siminovitch	University of Toronto	Health Sciences
1982	William T. Tutte	University of Waterloo	Natural Sciences
1983	Brenda Milner	McGill University	Health Sciences
1984	Werner Israel	University of Alberta	Natural Sciences
1985	Pierre Dansereau	Université du Québec à Montréal	Natural Sciences
	Phil Gold	McGill University	Natural Sciences
	Ralph Gordon Stanton	University of Manitoba	Natural Sciences
	Raymond N. Yong	McGill University	Engineering
1986	Jacques Genest	Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal/Université de Montréal	Health Sciences
	William H. Rapson [Wikidata]	University of Toronto	Engineering
	Karel Wiesner	University of New Brunswick	Natural Sciences
1987	Ronald J. Gillespie	McMaster University	Natural Sciences
	J. Fraser Mustard	McMaster University	Health Sciences
	Ashok Vijh	Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec	Engineering
1988	Henry J. M. Barnett	University of Western Ontario	Health Sciences
	William-Henri Gauvin	McGill University	Engineering
	John C. Polanyi	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
1989	J. Keith Brimacombe	University of British Columbia	Engineering
	Jules Hardy	Université de Montréal	Health Sciences
	J. Tuzo Wilson	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
1990	J. William Costerton	University of Calgary	Natural Sciences
	M. Daria Haust	University of British Columbia	Health Sciences
	Sidney van den Bergh	Dominion Astrophysical Observatory	Natural Sciences
1991	Jacques de Champlain	Université de Montréal	Health Sciences
	Walter H. Dilger	University of Calgary	Engineering
	Gordon Dixon	University of Calgary	Health Sciences
1992	Henry A. Becker	Queen's University	Engineering
	Keith U. Ingold	National Research Council of Canada	Natural Sciences
	Emil Skamene	McGill University	Health Sciences
1993	Alan G. Davenport	University of Western Ontario	Engineering
	Peter W. Hochachka	University of British Columbia	Natural Sciences
	André Roch Lecours [fr]	McGill University	Health Sciences
1994	Adrian G. Brook [Wikidata]	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
	C. André T. Salama	University of Toronto	Engineering
	Endel Tulving	University of Toronto	Health Sciences
1995	Myer Bloom	University of British Columbia	Natural Sciences
	Michel Chrétien	Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal/Université de Montréal	Health Sciences
	George D. Zames	McGill University	Engineering
1996	Philip Seeman	University of Toronto	Health Sciences
	William G. Unruh	University of British Columbia	Natural Sciences
1997	Stephen A. Cook	University of Toronto	Engineering
	Stephen Hanessian	Université de Montréal	Natural Sciences
	David H. MacLennan	University of Toronto	Health Sciences
1998	Fernand Labrie	Université Laval	Health Sciences
	Martha Salcudean	University of British Columbia	Engineering
	Juan C. Scaiano	University of Ottawa	Natural Sciences
1999	Albert J. Aguayo	Centre for Research in Neuroscience/McGill University	Health Sciences
	Maurice A. Bergougnou	University of Western Ontario	Engineering
	Walter N. Hardy	University of British Columbia	Natural Sciences
2000	Paul Brumer	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
	Fergus I. M. Craik	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
	John J. Jonas	McGill University	Engineering
	Anthony Pawson	Mount Sinai Hospital/University of Toronto	Health Sciences
2001	Werner Kalow	University of Toronto	Health Sciences
	Ronald Melzack	McGill University	Natural Sciences
	Norbert R. Morgenstern [de]	University of Alberta	Engineering
2002	Harry Arthurs	Osgoode Law School/York University	Social Sciences
	Nicolas Georganas	University of Ottawa	Engineering
	Ian Hacking	University of Toronto	Humanities
	Robert V. Moody	University of Alberta	Natural Sciences
	Lap-Chee Tsui	Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto	Health Sciences
2003	Edward J. Davison	University of Toronto	Engineering
	Walter Erwin Diewert	University of British Columbia	Social Sciences
	François Duchesneau [de; fr]	Université de Montréal	Humanities
	Tak Mak	University of Toronto	Health Sciences
	David Schindler	University of Alberta	Natural Sciences
2004	James G. Arthur	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
	Will Kymlicka	Queen's University	Social Sciences
	Jean-Jacques Nattiez	Université de Montréal	Humanities
	Janet Rossant	Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute/Mount Sinai Hospital/University of Toronto	Health Sciences
	R. Kerry Rowe	Queen's University	Engineering
2005	Luc Devroye	McGill University	Engineering
	Brian K. Hall	Dalhousie University	Natural Sciences
	Linda Hutcheon	University of Toronto	Humanities
	Margaret Lock	McGill University	Social Sciences
	Nahum Sonenberg	McGill University	Health Sciences
2006	Paul Corkum	National Research Council of Canada	Natural Sciences
	Jean-Marie Dufour	Université de Montréal	Social Sciences
	Brett Finlay	University of British Columbia	Health Sciences
	Roderick I. L. Guthrie [fr]	McGill University	Engineering
	Susan Sherwin	Dalhousie University	Humanities
2007	J. Richard Bond	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
	Robert E. W. Hancock	University of British Columbia	Health Sciences
	Roderick A. Macdonald	McGill University	Social Sciences
	Shana Poplack	University of Ottawa	Humanities
	A. P. S. Selvadurai	McGill University	Engineering
2008	Constance Backhouse	University of Ottawa	Social Sciences
	Sherrill E. Grace [Wikidata]	University of British Columbia	Humanities
	Frank C. Hawthorne	University of Manitoba	Natural Sciences
	Michael V. Sefton	University of Toronto	Engineering
	Peter St George-Hyslop	University of Toronto	Health Sciences
2009	Philippe Gros [fr]	McGill University	Health Sciences
	Wagdi G. Habashi	McGill University	Engineering
	François Ricard	McGill University	Humanities
	John P. Smol	Queen's University	Natural Sciences
	Ernest Weinrib	University of Toronto	Social Sciences
2010	Ellen Bialystok	York University	Social Sciences
	Mark Henkelman	The Hospital for Sick Children	Health Sciences
	Ming Li	University of Waterloo	Engineering
	Arthur B. McDonald	Queen's University	Natural Sciences
	James H. Tully	University of Victoria	Humanities
2011	Gilles Brassard	Université de Montréal	Natural Sciences
	Michael R. Hayden	University of British Columbia	Health Sciences
	Keren Rice	University of Toronto	Humanities
	Lotfollah Shafai	University of Manitoba	Engineering
	Mark Zanna	University of Waterloo	Social Sciences
2012	Jean Grondin	Université de Montréal	Humanities
	Geoffrey Hinton	University of Toronto	Engineering
	Louis Taillefer [fr]	Université de Sherbrooke	Natural Sciences
	Mark Wainberg	Jewish General Hospital/McGill University	Health Sciences
	John Whalley	University of Western Ontario	Social Sciences
2013	Lorne Babiuk	University of Alberta	Health Sciences
	John McGarry	Queen's University	Social Sciences
	Witold Pedrycz [Wikidata]	University of Alberta	Engineering
	W. Richard Peltier	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
	Paul Thagard	University of Waterloo	Humanities
2014	Sajeev John	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
	Andreas Mandelis	University of Toronto	Engineering
	James R. Miller	University of Saskatchewan	Humanities
	Frank Plummer	University of Manitoba	Health Sciences
	D. R. Fraser Taylor	Carleton University	Social Sciences
2015	David M. R. Bentley	Western University	Humanities
	Vijay K. Bhargava	University of British Columbia	Engineering
	Victoria M. Kaspi	McGill University	Natural Sciences
	Donald J. Savoie	Université de Moncton	Social Sciences
	D. Lorne Tyrrell	University of Alberta	Health Sciences
2016	Axel Becke	Dalhousie University	Natural Sciences
	Isabelle Daunais [Wikidata]	McGill University	Humanities
	Elizabeth A. Edwards [Wikidata]	University of Toronto	Engineering
	Steven A. Narod [Wikidata]	University of Toronto	Health Sciences
	Daniel Trefler	University of Toronto	Social Sciences
2017[2]	John Borrows	University of Victoria	Social Sciences
	W. Ford Doolittle	Dalhousie University	Natural Sciences
	Thomas Hurka	University of Toronto	Humanities
	Julio Montaner	University of British Columbia	Health Sciences
	Molly Shoichet	University of Toronto	Engineering
2018[3]	André Gaudreault	University of Montreal	Humanities
	Vladimir Hachinski	Western University	Health Sciences
	Walter Herzog	University of Calgary	Engineering
	James Pinfold	University of Alberta	Natural Sciences
	Janet Werker	University of British Columbia	Social Sciences
2019[4]	Lynne Viola	University of Toronto	Humanities
	Stephen W. Scherer	University of Toronto	Health Sciences
	Keith W. Hipel	University of Waterloo	Engineering
	Yoshua Bengio	Université de Montréal	Natural Sciences
	André Blais	Université de Montréal	Social Sciences
2020[5]	Sarah Carter	University of Alberta	Humanities
	Alan Evans	McGill University	Health Sciences
	Edward H. Sargent	University of Toronto	Engineering
	Barbara Sherwood Lollar	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
	Cecilia Benoit	University of Victoria	Social Sciences
2021[6]	Stephen R. Gill	York University	Social Sciences
	Arthur Ripstein	University of Toronto	Humanities
	Michel Bouvier	Université de Montréal/Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC)	Health Sciences
	Gilbert Laporte	HEC Montreal	Engineering
	Douglas Stephan	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
2022[7]	Françoise Baylis	Dalhousie University	Humanities
	Jeff Dahn	Dalhousie University	Engineering
	Carl E. James	York University	Social Sciences
	Geoffrey Ozin	University of Toronto	Natural Sciences
	Salim Yusuf	McMaster University	Health Sciences
2023[8]	Ajay Heble	University of Guelph	Humanities
	Praveen Jain	Queen's University	Engineering
	Charles M. Morin	Université Laval	Social Sciences
	Sarah Otto	University of British Columbia	Natural Sciences
	Pieter Cullis	University of British Columbia	Health Sciences
2024[9]	Janine Marchessault	York University	Humanities
	Clément Gosselin	Université Laval	Engineering
	Tania Li	University of Toronto	Social Sciences
	Gerard Wright	McMaster University	Health Sciences
	Sylvain Moineau	Université Laval	Natural Sciences
2025[10]	René Doyon	Université de Montréal	Natural Sciences
	David Dyzenhaus	University of Toronto	Social Sciences
	Marco Marra	University of British Columbia	Health Sciences
	Christina Sharpe	York University	Humanities
	Peter Zandstra	University of British Columbia Engineering

See also

• List of medicine awards
• List of social sciences awards