“Nothing has been resolved by violence over the past fifty years,”
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Ursula Franklin
Ursula Martius Franklin was a Canadian metallurgist, activist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. She was the author of The Real World of Technology, which is based on her 1989 Massey Lectures; The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map…
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science · Canadian academic and activist (1921–2016) · physicist · metallurgist · university teacher · women's rights activist · engineer · peace activist · also Ursula Franklin, Ursula Martius Franklin, Franklin
Born 16 September 1921 · Died 22 July 2016 · Q77729
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2026· 5 entries
“It is crucial to recognize that war and war measures are fundamentally dysfunctional instruments of problem-solving. Violence begets more violence, war begets further wars, more enemies and more suffering.”
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“The rational thinking that force does not work, even for the enforcer, is staring us in the face.”
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The Guardian: ‘Grand and intimate’: Miles Franklin shortlisted novels grapple with profound questions of our time
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2020· 1 entry
Published “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 8,069 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 6,185 times.
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2016· 2 entries
Died 2016-07-22.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,711 times.
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2012· 4 entries
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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Published “Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 10,812 times.
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Published “Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 6,636 times.
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Was inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Quantity and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and Neuromotor Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults” in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise — cited 7,598 times.
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2006· 1 entry
Many of her articles and speeches on pacifism, feminism, technology and teaching are collected in The Ursula Franklin Reader published in 2006.
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2005· 1 entry
Published “Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome” in Circulation — cited 9,451 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Franklin was awarded one of Massey College's first Adrienne Clarkson Laureateships, honoring outstanding achievement in public service
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2002· 1 entry
The lawsuit was settled when the university acknowledged that many of its female professors had suffered from gender barriers and pay discrimination during their careers
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2001· 1 entry
Won Pearson Medal of Peace (2001).
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Companion of the Order of Canada (1992).
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1991· 4 entries
Awarded Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case (1991).
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Awarded Governor General's Awards (1991).
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Won Sir John William Dawson Medal (1991).
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Received a Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Person's Case for advancing the equality of girls and women in Canada
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1990· 1 entry
However, the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal
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1988· 1 entry
And a Senior Fellow of Massey College in 1989
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1984· 1 entry
Became the first woman at the University of Toronto to be named University Professor, a special title which is the highest honour given by the university
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1983· 1 entry
In 1989, she received the Wiegand Award which recognizes Canadians who have made significant contributions to the understanding of the human dimensions of science and technology
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1982· 1 entry
Was given the award of merit for the City of Toronto, mainly for her work in neighbourhood planning
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of Canada (1981).
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1973· 1 entry
And was given the designation of University Professor in 1984, becoming the first female professor to receive the university's highest honour
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1969· 1 entry
Franklin and Duckworth called on a committee of the Canadian Senate to recommend that Canada discontinue its chemical and biological weapons research and spend money instead on environmental research and preventive medic
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1968· 1 entry
And VOW national president Muriel Duckworth presented a brief to a House of Commons committee asserting that Canada and the United States had entered into military trade agreements without adequate public debate
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1967· 1 entry
Franklin became a researcher and associate professor at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, situated in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Engineering where she was an expert in metallurgy and materia
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1964· 1 entry
“but it was a very easy transition to Quakerism for us, and it has been a very good home and an extended family for us and our children.”
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1952· 2 entries
In 1952, Ursula Franklin married Fred Franklin (1921–2016), an engineer of German Jewish ancestry who had been exposed to Quakerism while living in England, where he had been sent to boarding school to escape the Nazis in 1936 and remained until emigrating to Canada in 1948.
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Ursula Franklin married Fred Franklin (1921–2016), an engineer of German Jewish ancestry who had been exposed to Quakerism while living in England, where he had been sent to boarding school to escape the Nazis in 1936 an
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1948· 1 entry
Franklin received her PhD in experimental physics at Technische Universität Berlin
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-09-16.
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1851· 1 entry
With the promise that they would liberate women from household drudgery
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