E.M. (Ted) Culliton, University Chancellor, making presentation of an honourary Doctor of Laws degree to George C. Laurence at Convocation held in Physical Education gymnasium. Norman K. Cram, University Registrar, stands at far left.

Bio/Historical Note: George Craig Laurence (1905-1987) was a Canadian nuclear physicist. He was educated at Dalhousie University, and at Cambridge University under Ernest Rutherford. He was appointed as Radium and X-ray physicist to the Canadian National Research Council in 1930. In 1939-1940 he attempted to build a graphite-uranium reactor in Ottawa, anticipating Enrico Fermi's work by several months. In 1942 Laurence joined the Anglo-French nuclear research team at the Montreal Laboratory, where he was responsible for recruiting Canadian scientists. The laboratory was later transferred to Deep River, Ontario, and there the ZEEP Reactor was built, the first outside the United States. In 1946-1947 Laurence was in the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. He then returned to Montreal Laboratory and continued to carry out his research from 1950 to 1961. He was then at the Chalk River Laboratory, and was President of the Atomic Energy Control Board from 1961 to 1970. Laurence died in 1987 in Deep River.