The Sandford Fleming Medal & Citation
Celebrating Excellence in Science Communication
Since 1982, RCIScience has awarded the Sandford Fleming Medal and Citation annually to an individual working in Canada who has made outstanding contributions to science communication.
Past recipients are a who’s who of Canadian science and science communication, including Helen Sawyer Hogg, Ursula Franklin, J. Tuzo Wilson, David Suzuki, Jay Ingram, Bob MacDonald, Chris Hadfield, Timothy Caulfield and André Picard, to name a few.
Together with the Logan Award, they are two of a limited number of awards highlighting outstanding science communication efforts in Canada.
“We are living in a time when the very foundations of science and truth are under attack globally. Propaganda, doubt and disinformation have taken up residence in the public discourse to a degree I find alarming. So receiving this award, this year, is a sweet validation that the task of democratizing science matters, and that we have to keep doing it!”
— Alanna Mitchell, 2024 Sandford Fleming Medal & Citation Recipient
PAST RECIPIENTS
Geoffrey Hinton
Alanna Mitchell
Terry Collins
Dawn Bazely
André Picard
Timothy Caulfield
Dan Falk
John Smol
Pierre Chastenay
Ivan Semeniuk
Molly Shoichet
Penny Park
Chris Hadfield
Robert Thirsk
John Dirks
Paul Delaney
David Schindler
Henry Lickers
Peter Calamai
Paul Fjeld
Joe Schwarcz
M. Brock Fenton
Robert Buckman
Bob McDonald
J. N. Patterson Hume
Ursula Martius Franklin
John Charles Polanyi
Sid Katz
John R. Percy
Derek York
Eve Savory
Edward Struzik
Carol Gold
Terence Dickinson
Annabel Slaight
Joan Hollobon
Marilyn Dunlop
Fred Bruemmer
Fernand Seguin
J. Tuzo Wilson
Jay Ingram
Helen Sawyer Hogg
Lister Sinclair
Lydia Dotto
David Suzuki