University of Toronto computer scientist Stephen Cook receives $1 million in research funding over five years. (NSERC) A Toronto mathematician and computer scientist has won this year's Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, worth $1 million.
Canada's top annual science prize has gone to Stephen Cook, professor emeritus in the department of computer science at the University of Toronto.
Cook's research focuses mainly on computational complexity and proof complexity, two areas of theoretical computer science and mathematics.
"His inquiries are now among the most essential theoretical results that all computer science graduates must understand," said a release from Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council announcing the award.
The prize will provide $1 million in research funding over five years and will be awarded by Governor General David Johnston at a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa Wednesday afternoon.
Named after the winner of 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Herzberg medal recognizes researchers for excellence and "influence in research for a body of work conducted in Canada that has substantially advanced" their field.
Cook was also the 1982 winner of the Turing award, the top research honour in the field of computer science.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council has also announced the winners of several other top prizes, including the John C. Polanyi Award, which recognizes a "recent outstanding advance" in science or engineering. That went to University of Toronto chemist Greg Scholes.
Scholes receives a grant of up to $250,000 for his research on the role of quantum mechanics in photosynthesis.
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