Gordon Shrum

Gordon Merritt Shrum OC OBE MM (January 14, 1896 – June 20, 1985) was a Canadian scientist, teacher, administrator, and the first Chancellor of Simon Fraser University.

His education at Victoria College at the University of Toronto, where he started in 1913, was interrupted by World War I.

As a doctoral student in February 1923 he was the first to replicate Kamerlingh Onnes's 1908 Nobel Prize–winning feat of liquefying helium.

As a post-doctoral fellow he was the first to identify the prominent green line in the Aurora Borealis as due to oxygen.

Bennett Dam, which impounds Williston Lake Reservoir, and the construction of a 2730 MW powerhouse (at that time the largest in the world) named after him: the G.M.

[8] During this time, Shrum was also involved in establishing Simon Fraser University and served as its first chancellor from 1963 to 1968.