Leo Yaffe

Leo Yaffe, OC, FRSC (July 6, 1916 – May 14, 1997) was a Canadian nuclear chemistry scientist and a proponent of the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Born in Devils Lake, North Dakota, his family moved to Winnipeg in 1920. He studied at the University of Manitoba receiving a B.Sc.(Hons) in 1940, a M.Sc in 1941, and was awarded an honorary D.Sc in 1982. He received a Ph.D in 1943 from McGill University. In 1943, he was recruited by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited to work at the Université de Montréal, moving to the Chalk River Lab, on the banks of the Ottawa River, in Ontario, at the end of the war. He remained with the AECL until 1952. In 1952, he moved to Montreal where the J.S. Foster cyclotron had just been built at McGill University....