Michael Steinitz, St. Francis Xavier University for his significant contributions to Canadian Physics as a profession and to raising its profile with the general public, in particular through his efforts on the 2005 International Year of Physics

A.E. (Ted) Dixon, Biomedical Photometrics Inc. for his contributions in the semiconductor and biomedical fields. It recognizes his innovations in scanning laser imaging technology and confocal laser scanning microscopes.

John Harnad, Concordia University, for his deep and lasting contributions to the theory of integrable systems with connections to gauge theory, inverse scattering and random matrices.

Hong Guo, McGill University for his theoretical and computational studies of quantum transport, especially as applied to nanoscale and molecular devices.

Peter Williams, Acadia University for his overall, accomplished contributions to teaching. Peter has developed and taught a great diversity of courses, has shown innovation in the classroom and has published a number of articles in teaching journals. Peter has a clear desire to provide his students with an exceptional learning experience and there is strong evidence, from the received testimonials, that his teaching has had a significant impact on the lives and career choices of his students. Peter devotes significant efforts to improving secondary and post-secondary physics education in Atlantic Canada. Teaching is obviously Peter’s focus!

Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto for seminal experimental and theoretical work on superluminal effects, entanglement of more than two photons, Bose-Einstein condensation of cold atoms, and quantum information.

Ian Affleck, University of British Columbia for application of conformal field theory to quantum magnetism, spin chains, the Kondo effect and flux phases in superconductors.