 The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is Canada's leading organization for scientific research and development. NRC was established in 1916, mainly to advise the government. Then, in the early 1930s, laboratories were built in Ottawa. NRC grew rapidly during World War II, then played a major role during the explosion of basic and applied science and engineering research between 1945-65. NRC personnel invented the artificial pacemaker, developed canola (rapeseed) (1940s), the Crash Position Indicator (1950s) and the Cesium Beam atomic clock (1960s). More recently, the NRC has been highly influential in the field of audio. A great deal of research at the NRC has gone into the designs of many popular speakers from Canadian speaker manufacturers like Energy Loudspeakers and Paradigm Electronics, and their research has influenced speaker designs around the world. Image File history File links NRC_logo. ...
1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Advance Ottawa/Ottawa en avant Location City Information Established: 1850 as Bytown Area: 2,778. ...
Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II...
This article is about a medical device which electrically stimulates the heart. ...
Canola field near Red Deer, Alberta Canola field in Temora, New South Wales Canola field near Bindi Bindi Western Australia In agriculture, Canola is a trademarked cultivar of the rapeseed plant from which rapeseed oil is obtained. ...
Atomic clock Chip-Scale Atomic Clock Unveiled by NIST An atomic clock is a type of clock that uses an atomic resonance frequency standard as its counter. ...
Paradigm is a Canadian electronics company. ...
NRC now focuses on developing partnerships with private and public-sector technology companies, both in Canada and elsewhere.
The TRIUMF laboratory at University of British Columbia was partly funded by the NRC. TRIUMF, for Tri University Meson Facility, is a particle accelerator located on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, B.C.. Its construction was funded by three local universities - Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria, and UBC. Asteroid (14959) TRIUMF is named in honor of the laboratory. ...
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. ...
Specialized agencies and services which have grown out of the National Research Council of Canada include:
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA or, in French, lAgence spatiale canadienne, ASC) is the Canadian government department space agency responsible for Canadas space program. ...
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited or AECL is a Canadian federal Crown corporation with the responsibility to manage Canadian nuclear policy, promote nuclear energy and research, and to oversee nuclear waste developed by Canadian nuclear reactors as well as manage the decommissioning of older reactors. ...
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the major federal agency responsible for funding health research in Canada. ...
The CSE badge The Communications Security Establishment or CSE is an intelligence agency of the Canadian government, charged with the duty of keeping track of foreign signals intelligence. ...
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council is a Canadian government division that provides grants for research in the natural sciences and in engineering. ...
Planning and Reporting The NRC reports yearly within the Treasury Board Secretariat's Results-Based Management Framework. The most recent Departmental Performance Report (DPR) is 2003-2004. The NRC is current guided by a strategic Vision 2006: Science at Work for Canada. Vision 2006 identifies five "strategic pillars" for the NRC: Outstanding People – Outstanding Employer, Excellence and Leadership in R&D, Technology Clusters, Value for Canada, and Global Reach. Starting in January 2005, the NRC has been engaged in a Renewal process to examine the future of science and technology in Canada, and the roles that the NRC might play.
Employment
 Plaque on the main NRC building in Ottawa. The National Research Council employs close to 4,000 people across Canada. Like all government agencies, it is subject to strict hiring rules. The NRC's hiring policies include employment equity. Sign at the NRC headquarters in Ottawa, Canada; I thought it was kind of an amusing inscription, August 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Sign at the NRC headquarters in Ottawa, Canada; I thought it was kind of an amusing inscription, August 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
In 1992, a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a ruling that the National Research Council had discriminated against one of its employees, Dr. Chander P. Grover, on the basis of his race, national origin (Indian) and colour. Complaints of racial discrimination are ongoing against the National Research Council. Chander P. Grover, as photographed in 2004. ...
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An African-American drinks out of a water fountain marked for colored in 1939 at a street car terminal in Oklahoma City. ...
Governance The NRC is governed by a governing council. Current members of the council are: Patricia Béretta, Louis Brunel, Pierre Coulombe (President and Chairman), Delwyn Fredlund, Wayne Gulliver, James Hatton, Joseph Hubert, Pascale Michaud, Gilles Patry, Alan Pelman, Louise Proulx, René Racine, Salma Rajwani, Inge Russell, Katherine Schultz, Barbara Stanley, Howard Tennant, Jean-Claude Villiard, and Louis Visentin. ...
Cold War According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service website, the NRC headquarters in Ottawa "was a prime espionage target" during the Cold War. [1] . The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) was founded in 1984 by an act of the Canadian Parliament, Bill C-9, an Act to Establish the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to be a replacement for the floundering RCMP Security Service. ...
The Cold War (Russian: Ð¥Ð¾Ð»Ð¾Ð´Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð²Ð¾Ð¹Ð½Ð° , Kholodna-ya voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their alliance partners. ...
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The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (commonly CISTI) began as the library of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the leading agency for research and development in Canada, and became the National Science Library in 1957. ...
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