University of Toronto

Awards

1. 2026

   Jacob Tsimerman

   Fields Medal

2. 2025

   John Richard Bond

   Shaw Prize — Astronomy · Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

3. 2025

   Daniel J. Drucker

   Breakthrough Prize — Life Sciences

4. 2024

   Geoffrey Hinton

   Nobel Prize — Physics

5. 2023

   Daniel J. Drucker

   Wolf Prize — Medicine

6. 2021

   Daniel J. Drucker

   Canada Gairdner International Award

7. 2018

   Geoffrey Hinton

   Turing Award

8. 2017

   Lewis E. Kay

   Canada Gairdner International Award

9. 2015

   James G. Arthur

   Wolf Prize — Mathematics

10. 2005

    James Till

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · Ontario Cancer Institute

11. 2005

    Ernest McCulloch

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award · Ontario Cancer Institute

12. 1998

    Yoshio Masui

    Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

13. 1992

    Yoshio Masui

    Canada Gairdner International Award

14. 1991

    David H. MacLennan

    Canada Gairdner International Award

15. 1990

    Victor Ling

    Canada Gairdner International Award

16. 1990

    Lap-Chee Tsui

    Canada Gairdner International Award

17. 1990

    John R. Riordan

    Canada Gairdner International Award

18. 1989

    Tak W. Mak

    Canada Gairdner International Award

19. 1989

    Ronald G. Worton

    Canada Gairdner International Award

20. 1986

    John C. Polanyi

    Nobel Prize — Chemistry

21. 1986

    Harald Sonnenberg

    Canada Gairdner International Award

22. 1982

    John C. Polanyi

    Wolf Prize — Chemistry

23. 1982

    Stephen Cook

    Turing Award

24. 1980

    Irving B. Fritz

    Canada Gairdner International Award

25. 1975

    William T. Mustard

    Canada Gairdner International Award

26. 1975

    John D. Keith

    Canada Gairdner International Award

27. 1973

    Harold E. Johns

    Canada Gairdner International Award

28. 1972

    Oleh Hornykiewicz

    Canada Gairdner International Award

29. 1971

    Charles Best

    Canada Gairdner International Award

30. 1969

    Robert B. Salter

    Canada Gairdner International Award

31. 1969

    James Till

    Canada Gairdner International Award

32. 1969

    Ernest McCulloch

    Canada Gairdner International Award

33. 1964

    Gordon D.W. Murray

    Canada Gairdner International Award

34. 1959

    Wilfred G. Bigelow

    Canada Gairdner International Award

35. 1955

    Robert D. Defries

    Lasker Award — Lasker–Bloomberg Public Service Award

36. 1923

    John James Rickard Macleod

    Nobel Prize — Medicine

37. 1923

    Frederick Grant Banting

    Nobel Prize — Medicine