Dr. Charles Thomas Beer was born in Leigh, Dorset, England in 1915. Receiving his D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1948, his studies focused on organic chemistry.

Dr. Wilfred Gordon Bigelow was born in 1913 in Brandon, Manitoba. He earned his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1938, followed by a surgical residency at Toronto General Hospital.

Dr. Henri Breault was born in Tecumseh, Ontario in 1909 and received his M.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1936. An internship at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Windsor gave Dr. Breault a strong foundation in pediatrics, which he applied to a 41-year practice in Windsor, and particularly to a comprehensive campaign to prevent accidental childhood poisonings.

Born in 1865 in England near the Welsh border, Dr. Wilfred Thomason Grenfell received his medical training at the London Hospital and M.D. from Oxford University in 1889. He was an unmotivated medical student until inspired by a tent evangelist to devote his restless energies to helping the less fortunate.

Dr. Pierre Masson was born in Dijon, France in 1880. Deciding on a medical career at a young age, he received his MD from the University of Paris in 1909.

Dr. Brenda Milner (née Langford) was born in Manchester, England in 1918 and received her M.A. from Cambridge University in 1949. Her main interest focused on experimental psychology. While still completing her M.A., she moved to Canada in 1944 to join the Institut de Psychologie at the Université de Montréal .

Born in Toronto in 1910 Dr. Robert Laing Noble earned his MD from the University of Toronto in 1934, followed by a Ph.D. in 1937 from the University of London in England. He returned to Canada to work with Dr. J.B. Collip at McGill University on endocrine related cancers.

Dr. Louis Siminovitch was born in Montreal in 1920. He studied chemistry at McGill University, earning his Ph.D in 1944. Research fellowships at the National Research Council Research Council in Ottawa (1944-47) and at the Institut Pasteur in Paris (1947-53) followed.