[2] With roots tracing back to 1843, the Faculty currently offers several undergraduate and graduate programs ranging from Earth Sciences to Mathematics to Neuroscience.
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy, among other scientists, produced major scientific research and breakthroughs which won Nobel Prizes.
After World War II, the Faculty kept expanding, with the construction of the Radiation Laboratory, Physical Sciences Centre (now Frank Dawson Adams), McIntyre-Stewart Complex of Biology, Otto Mass Chemistry, Burnside Side (Math, Geography, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Sciences) were built due to lack of spaces.
[13] Each Associate Dean is responsible for a specific administrative area, including Academics, Student Affairs, Graduate Education and Research.
B.Sc undergraduate students can also choose from 34 Minor programs, ranging from Human Nutrition to Musical Science and Technology.
Programs can be found for every department and discipline of the Faculty of Science, with focused research topics ranging from Sea Ice Dynamics to Astrophysics.
[22] Willard Boyle received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics[23] thanks to his contributions to the invention of the charge-coupled device (CCD),[24] an integrated circuit containing an array of linked capacitors.
David Saint-Jacques launched to the International Space Station in a six-month mission on Expeditions 57, 58, and 59 in 2018.
Thomas Chang invented the first artificial blood cell in his dorm room in 1957, while still an undergraduate at McGill.
[29] Yoshua Bengio, BEng’86, MSc’88, PhD’91, has well-recognized work in the field of deep learning and artificial neural webworks.