Killam Prize

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Canadian award academic award

The Killam Prize is one of Canada's most prestigious academic awards, recognizing outstanding lifetime achievement in research across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, and engineering.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Canada Council Killam Prize	1
Killam Prize in Engineering	1
Killam Prize in Health Sciences	1
Killam Prize in Humanities	1
Killam Prize in Natural Sciences	1
Killam Prize in Social Sciences	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Canadian award ⓘ academic award ⓘ
administeredBy	Canada Council for the Arts ⓘ
awardedFor	career contributions rather than single work ⓘ
awardFor	outstanding lifetime achievement in research ⓘ
awardingBodyType	federal arts council ⓘ
category	Killam Prize self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Killam Prize in Engineering Killam Prize self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Killam Prize in Health Sciences Killam Prize self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Killam Prize in Humanities Killam Prize self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Killam Prize in Natural Sciences Killam Prize self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Killam Prize in Social Sciences
country	Canada ⓘ
currency	Canadian dollar ⓘ
describedAs	one of Canada’s most prestigious research awards ⓘ
disciplineCoverage	multidisciplinary ⓘ
eligibility	outstanding Canadian scholars ⓘ scholars working in Canada ⓘ
field	engineering ⓘ health sciences ⓘ humanities ⓘ natural sciences ⓘ social sciences ⓘ
formerName	Killam Prize self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Canada Council Killam Prize
frequency	annual ⓘ
inception	1981 ⓘ
language	English ⓘ French ⓘ
monetaryValue	100000 CAD per prize ⓘ
namedAfter	Dorothy J. Killam ⓘ Izaak Walton Killam ⓘ
notableRecipient	Arthur McDonald ⓘ Brenda Milner ⓘ Charles Taylor ⓘ John Polanyi ⓘ Michael Ignatieff ⓘ Willard Boyle ⓘ
numberOfRecipientsPerYear	up to five ⓘ
prestigeLevel	among highest in Canadian academia ⓘ
purpose	to support and celebrate Canadian research excellence ⓘ
region	North America ⓘ
relatedFoundation	Killam Trusts ⓘ
scope	national ⓘ
selectionProcess	expert jury panels ⓘ peer review ⓘ
sponsor	Killam Trusts ⓘ
status	active ⓘ
website	https://killamprogram.canadacouncil.ca ⓘ

Referenced by (10)

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Geoffrey Hinton → awardReceived → Killam Prize ⓘ

Stephen Cook → awardReceived → Killam Prize ⓘ

Yoshua Bengio → awardReceived → Killam Prize ⓘ

Yoshua → awardReceived → Killam Prize ⓘ

subject surface form: Yoshua Bengio