Vincent

Sylvie Vincent a Canadian anthropologist and ethnologist died of COVID-19 on 30 April 2020 at the age of 79. Vincent was editor-in-chief of the magazine Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, which she co-founded in the early 1970s. In 1972, she began working with the Innu writer Joséphine Bacon, who helped Vincent as an interpreter. During her various projects, Vincent worked with numerous First Nations tribes of Canada, such as the Cree, the Algonquins, and the Wyandots. Throughout her career, she collaborated with many well-known anthropologists, such as Bernard Arcand, Serge Bouchard, José Mailhot, and Rémi Savard. In 2009, Vincent received the Prix des Dix for her remarkable, personal contribution to the history of the First Nations of Quebec.

Sir John Theodore Houghton ‑ a Welsh atmospheric physicist who was the co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore – died on 15 April 2020 due to COVID-19. He was the lead editor of first three IPCC reports. He was professor in atmospheric physics at the University of Oxford, former Director General at the Met Office and founder of the Hadley Centre. He was the president of the John Ray Initiative, an organisation "connecting Environment, Science and Christianity", where he has compared the stewardship of the Earth, to the stewardship of the Garden of Eden by Adam and Eve. He was a founding member of the International Society for Scien...

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Sylvie Vincent, anthropologist and ethnologist

Sir John Theodore Houghton, physician