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Order of Canada
Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon, O.C., M.B.E., Ph.D., LL.D.
| Full Name |
Honour Received |
Residence |
| Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon, O.C., M.B.E., Ph.D., LL.D. |
O.C. |
Kingston |
| Honour |
Appointment |
Investiture |
| Officer of the Order of Canada |
May 9, 1996 |
January 3, 1999 |
| He is world renowned for the development of the magnesium production process that bears his name and was crucial to the Allied effort during the Second World War. As a researcher, scientist, scholar, educator and head of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Toronto, he has had a remarkable influence on the study of science and on his many students who assumed prominent positions in industry, government and academia. |
| Deceased on December 9, 1999.
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