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| National Research Council Canada Director of Government Relations and Liaison with the Office of the National Science Advisor at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) |
| George Klein Canada's Greatest Inventor |
| This summer
marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of George J. Klein, the Hamilton-born
design engineer who worked at NRC for over 40 years. Dr. Klein is often cited
as the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th century and his memory is
being celebrated in many ways this year including the release of an official biography
published by NRC Research Press and written by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle. Titled George
J. Klein: The Great Inventor, the book is the second in a series of biographies
that began with the well-received 2002 book Gerhard Herzberg: An Illustrious Life
in Science. An inductee of the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame, Dr. Klein was known as a kind, generous, and modest man, as well as an exceptionally productive and creative inventor. Dr. Klein's numerous
inventions included: the electric wheelchair for quadriplegics; the microsurgical
staple gun; a wide range of industrial gearing systems; and internationally important
innovations in aviation and space technologies. His early research, for example,
made it practical to use skis on aircraft, and his later inventions included the
STEM antenna, which became a renowned Canadian contribution to the Mercury, Gemini,
and Apollo Space programs. For more details: click here |