# Killam Prize

The Killam Prize (previously the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize) was established according to the will of Dorothy J. Killam to honour the memory of her husband Izaak Walton Killam.
Five Killam Prizes, each having a value of $100,000, were awarded annually by the Canada Council for the Arts to eminent Canadian researchers who distinguish themselves in the fields of social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, health sciences, or engineering.
In August 2021, the Canada Council announced it would transition the administration of the Killam program to the National Research Council Canada (NRC) by March 2022.
The restructured Killam Program was officially launched under the administration of the NRC in April 2022. It is now called the National Killam Program and consists of the Killam Prizes and the Dorothy Killam Fellowships.

## Recipients

| Year | Winner | Affiliation | Field |
| 1976 | Harold Williams | Memorial University of Newfoundland | Natural Sciences |
| 1978 | Harold Williams | Memorial University of Newfoundland | Natural Sciences |
| 1981 | Feroze N. Ghadially [Wikidata] | University of Saskatchewan | Health Sciences |
| 1981 | Raymond Lemieux | University of Alberta | Natural Sciences |
| 1981 | Louis Siminovitch | University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 1982 | William T. Tutte | University of Waterloo | Natural Sciences |
| 1983 | Brenda Milner | McGill University | Health Sciences |
| 1984 | Werner Israel | University of Alberta | Natural Sciences |
| 1985 | Pierre Dansereau | Université du Québec à Montréal | Natural Sciences |
| 1985 | Phil Gold | McGill University | Natural Sciences |
| 1985 | Ralph Gordon Stanton | University of Manitoba | Natural Sciences |
| 1985 | Raymond N. Yong | McGill University | Engineering |
| 1986 | Jacques Genest | Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal/Université de Montréal | Health Sciences |
| 1986 | William H. Rapson [Wikidata] | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 1986 | Karel Wiesner | University of New Brunswick | Natural Sciences |
| 1987 | Ronald J. Gillespie | McMaster University | Natural Sciences |
| 1987 | J. Fraser Mustard | McMaster University | Health Sciences |
| 1987 | Ashok Vijh | Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec | Engineering |
| 1988 | Henry J. M. Barnett | University of Western Ontario | Health Sciences |
| 1988 | William-Henri Gauvin | McGill University | Engineering |
| 1988 | John C. Polanyi | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 1989 | J. Keith Brimacombe | University of British Columbia | Engineering |
| 1989 | Jules Hardy | Université de Montréal | Health Sciences |
| 1989 | J. Tuzo Wilson | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 1990 | J. William Costerton | University of Calgary | Natural Sciences |
| 1990 | M. Daria Haust | University of British Columbia | Health Sciences |
| 1990 | Sidney van den Bergh | Dominion Astrophysical Observatory | Natural Sciences |
| 1991 | Jacques de Champlain | Université de Montréal | Health Sciences |
| 1991 | Walter H. Dilger | University of Calgary | Engineering |
| 1991 | Gordon Dixon | University of Calgary | Health Sciences |
| 1992 | Henry A. Becker | Queen's University | Engineering |
| 1992 | Keith U. Ingold | National Research Council of Canada | Natural Sciences |
| 1992 | Emil Skamene | McGill University | Health Sciences |
| 1993 | Alan G. Davenport | University of Western Ontario | Engineering |
| 1993 | Peter W. Hochachka | University of British Columbia | Natural Sciences |
| 1993 | André Roch Lecours [fr] | McGill University | Health Sciences |
| 1994 | Adrian G. Brook [Wikidata] | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 1994 | C. André T. Salama | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 1994 | Endel Tulving | University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 1995 | Myer Bloom | University of British Columbia | Natural Sciences |
| 1995 | Michel Chrétien | Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal/Université de Montréal | Health Sciences |
| 1995 | George D. Zames | McGill University | Engineering |
| 1996 | Philip Seeman | University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 1996 | William G. Unruh | University of British Columbia | Natural Sciences |
| 1997 | Stephen A. Cook | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 1997 | Stephen Hanessian | Université de Montréal | Natural Sciences |
| 1997 | David H. MacLennan | University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 1998 | Fernand Labrie | Université Laval | Health Sciences |
| 1998 | Martha Salcudean | University of British Columbia | Engineering |
| 1998 | Juan C. Scaiano | University of Ottawa | Natural Sciences |
| 1999 | Albert J. Aguayo | Centre for Research in Neuroscience/McGill University | Health Sciences |
| 1999 | Maurice A. Bergougnou | University of Western Ontario | Engineering |
| 1999 | Walter N. Hardy | University of British Columbia | Natural Sciences |
| 2000 | Paul Brumer | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 2000 | Fergus I. M. Craik | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 2000 | John J. Jonas | McGill University | Engineering |
| 2000 | Anthony Pawson | Mount Sinai Hospital/University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 2001 | Werner Kalow | University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 2001 | Ronald Melzack | McGill University | Natural Sciences |
| 2001 | Norbert R. Morgenstern [de] | University of Alberta | Engineering |
| 2002 | Harry Arthurs | Osgoode Law School/York University | Social Sciences |
| 2002 | Nicolas Georganas | University of Ottawa | Engineering |
| 2002 | Ian Hacking | University of Toronto | Humanities |
| 2002 | Robert V. Moody | University of Alberta | Natural Sciences |
| 2002 | Lap-Chee Tsui | Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 2003 | Edward J. Davison | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 2003 | Walter Erwin Diewert | University of British Columbia | Social Sciences |
| 2003 | François Duchesneau [de; fr] | Université de Montréal | Humanities |
| 2003 | Tak Mak | University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 2003 | David Schindler | University of Alberta | Natural Sciences |
| 2004 | James G. Arthur | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 2004 | Will Kymlicka | Queen's University | Social Sciences |
| 2004 | Jean-Jacques Nattiez | Université de Montréal | Humanities |
| 2004 | Janet Rossant | Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute/Mount Sinai Hospital/University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 2004 | R. Kerry Rowe | Queen's University | Engineering |
| 2005 | Luc Devroye | McGill University | Engineering |
| 2005 | Brian K. Hall | Dalhousie University | Natural Sciences |
| 2005 | Linda Hutcheon | University of Toronto | Humanities |
| 2005 | Margaret Lock | McGill University | Social Sciences |
| 2005 | Nahum Sonenberg | McGill University | Health Sciences |
| 2006 | Paul Corkum | National Research Council of Canada | Natural Sciences |
| 2006 | Jean-Marie Dufour | Université de Montréal | Social Sciences |
| 2006 | Brett Finlay | University of British Columbia | Health Sciences |
| 2006 | Roderick I. L. Guthrie [fr] | McGill University | Engineering |
| 2006 | Susan Sherwin | Dalhousie University | Humanities |
| 2007 | J. Richard Bond | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 2007 | Robert E. W. Hancock | University of British Columbia | Health Sciences |
| 2007 | Roderick A. Macdonald | McGill University | Social Sciences |
| 2007 | Shana Poplack | University of Ottawa | Humanities |
| 2007 | A. P. S. Selvadurai | McGill University | Engineering |
| 2008 | Constance Backhouse | University of Ottawa | Social Sciences |
| 2008 | Sherrill E. Grace [Wikidata] | University of British Columbia | Humanities |
| 2008 | Frank C. Hawthorne | University of Manitoba | Natural Sciences |
| 2008 | Michael V. Sefton | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 2008 | Peter St George-Hyslop | University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 2009 | Philippe Gros [fr] | McGill University | Health Sciences |
| 2009 | Wagdi G. Habashi | McGill University | Engineering |
| 2009 | François Ricard | McGill University | Humanities |
| 2009 | John P. Smol | Queen's University | Natural Sciences |
| 2009 | Ernest Weinrib | University of Toronto | Social Sciences |
| 2010 | Ellen Bialystok | York University | Social Sciences |
| 2010 | Mark Henkelman | The Hospital for Sick Children | Health Sciences |
| 2010 | Ming Li | University of Waterloo | Engineering |
| 2010 | Arthur B. McDonald | Queen's University | Natural Sciences |
| 2010 | James H. Tully | University of Victoria | Humanities |
| 2011 | Gilles Brassard | Université de Montréal | Natural Sciences |
| 2011 | Michael R. Hayden | University of British Columbia | Health Sciences |
| 2011 | Keren Rice | University of Toronto | Humanities |
| 2011 | Lotfollah Shafai | University of Manitoba | Engineering |
| 2011 | Mark Zanna | University of Waterloo | Social Sciences |
| 2012 | Jean Grondin | Université de Montréal | Humanities |
| 2012 | Geoffrey Hinton | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 2012 | Louis Taillefer [fr] | Université de Sherbrooke | Natural Sciences |
| 2012 | Mark Wainberg | Jewish General Hospital/McGill University | Health Sciences |
| 2012 | John Whalley | University of Western Ontario | Social Sciences |
| 2013 | Lorne Babiuk | University of Alberta | Health Sciences |
| 2013 | John McGarry | Queen's University | Social Sciences |
| 2013 | Witold Pedrycz [Wikidata] | University of Alberta | Engineering |
| 2013 | W. Richard Peltier | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 2013 | Paul Thagard | University of Waterloo | Humanities |
| 2014 | Sajeev John | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 2014 | Andreas Mandelis | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 2014 | James R. Miller | University of Saskatchewan | Humanities |
| 2014 | Frank Plummer | University of Manitoba | Health Sciences |
| 2014 | D. R. Fraser Taylor | Carleton University | Social Sciences |
| 2015 | David M. R. Bentley | Western University | Humanities |
| 2015 | Vijay K. Bhargava | University of British Columbia | Engineering |
| 2015 | Victoria M. Kaspi | McGill University | Natural Sciences |
| 2015 | Donald J. Savoie | Université de Moncton | Social Sciences |
| 2015 | D. Lorne Tyrrell | University of Alberta | Health Sciences |
| 2016 | Axel Becke | Dalhousie University | Natural Sciences |
| 2016 | Isabelle Daunais [Wikidata] | McGill University | Humanities |
| 2016 | Elizabeth A. Edwards [Wikidata] | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 2016 | Steven A. Narod [Wikidata] | University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 2016 | Daniel Trefler | University of Toronto | Social Sciences |
| 2017 | John Borrows | University of Victoria | Social Sciences |
| 2017 | W. Ford Doolittle | Dalhousie University | Natural Sciences |
| 2017 | Thomas Hurka | University of Toronto | Humanities |
| 2017 | Julio Montaner | University of British Columbia | Health Sciences |
| 2017 | Molly Shoichet | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 2018 | André Gaudreault | University of Montreal | Humanities |
| 2018 | Vladimir Hachinski | Western University | Health Sciences |
| 2018 | Walter Herzog | University of Calgary | Engineering |
| 2018 | James Pinfold | University of Alberta | Natural Sciences |
| 2018 | Janet Werker | University of British Columbia | Social Sciences |
| 2019 | Lynne Viola | University of Toronto | Humanities |
| 2019 | Stephen W. Scherer | University of Toronto | Health Sciences |
| 2019 | Keith W. Hipel | University of Waterloo | Engineering |
| 2019 | Yoshua Bengio | Université de Montréal | Natural Sciences |
| 2019 | André Blais | Université de Montréal | Social Sciences |
| 2020 | Sarah Carter | University of Alberta | Humanities |
| 2020 | Alan Evans | McGill University | Health Sciences |
| 2020 | Edward H. Sargent | University of Toronto | Engineering |
| 2020 | Barbara Sherwood Lollar | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 2020 | Cecilia Benoit | University of Victoria | Social Sciences |
| 2021 | Stephen R. Gill | York University | Social Sciences |
| 2021 | Arthur Ripstein | University of Toronto | Humanities |
| 2021 | Michel Bouvier | Université de Montréal/Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) | Health Sciences |
| 2021 | Gilbert Laporte | HEC Montreal | Engineering |
| 2021 | Douglas Stephan | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 2022 | Françoise Baylis | Dalhousie University | Humanities |
| 2022 | Jeff Dahn | Dalhousie University | Engineering |
| 2022 | Carl E. James | York University | Social Sciences |
| 2022 | Geoffrey Ozin | University of Toronto | Natural Sciences |
| 2022 | Salim Yusuf | McMaster University | Health Sciences |
| 2023 | Ajay Heble | University of Guelph | Humanities |
| 2023 | Praveen Jain | Queen's University | Engineering |
| 2023 | Charles M. Morin | Université Laval | Social Sciences |
| 2023 | Sarah Otto | University of British Columbia | Natural Sciences |
| 2023 | Pieter Cullis | University of British Columbia | Health Sciences |
| 2024 | Janine Marchessault | York University | Humanities |
| 2024 | Clément Gosselin | Université Laval | Engineering |
| 2024 | Tania Li | University of Toronto | Social Sciences |
| 2024 | Gerard Wright | McMaster University | Health Sciences |
| 2024 | Sylvain Moineau | Université Laval | Natural Sciences |