George Laurence

George Craig Laurence (21 January 1905 – 6 November 1987) was a Canadian nuclear physicist.

[1] He was appointed as Radium and X-ray physicist to the Canadian National Research Council in 1930.

In 1939–40 he attempted to build a graphite-uranium reactor in Ottawa, anticipating Enrico Fermi's work by several months.

In 1942 he joined the Anglo-French nuclear research team at the Montreal Laboratory, where he was responsible for recruiting Canadian scientists.

Laurence Court, a street in Deep River, Ontario, is named in his honour.