Canada’s top researchers in the natural sciences and engineering have been honoured on February 27th at an awards ceremony hosted by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada. Among them is renowned climate scientist and CAP member Richard Peltier of the University of Toronto, winner of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, NSERC’s highest honour. Eighteen other individuals and teams are winners of six other prestigious prizes awarded by NSERC. The complete list of recipients can be found here.