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Tom Brzustowski


Prof. Dr.

Alternative spellings:
Thomas A. Brzustowski
T. A. Brzustowski
Thomas Anthony Brzustowski
Thomas Brzustowski
Tomasz Antoni Brzustowski

B: 1937 Warschau
Biblio: Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering

Affiliations

  • University of Ottawa. Telfer School of Management
  • University of Waterloo. Board
  • External links

  • Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
  • Wikipedia (English)
  • NACO Authority File
  • Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
  • Wikidata
  • International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)


  • Thomas Anthony Brzustowski, OC FRSC (Polish: Tomasz Antoni Brzustowski; April 4, 1937 – June 19, 2020) was a Canadian engineer, academic, and civil servant. Born in Warsaw, he came to Canada with his family when he was 11. He received a B.A.Sc. degree in engineering physics from the University of Toronto in 1958. He received an M.A. degree from Princeton University in 1960 and a Ph.D. degree in aeronautical engineering in 1963. He then joined the University of Waterloo teaching in the department of mechanical engineering. From 1967 to 1970 he was the chairman of the department and from 1975 to 1987 he was Vice-President, Academic. From 1987 to 1991 he was the Ontario deputy minister of Colleges and Universities. He was president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council from 1995 to 2005. From 2005 to 2012 he served as the inaugural RBC Professor in Commercialization of Innovation at the University of Ottawa and wrote the book The Way Ahead: Meeting Canada's Productivity Challenge. He coined the phrase "Necessity may be the mother of invention, but competition is the father of innovation." He was also the first Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at that university. He was Chair of the board of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo from 2006 to 2014, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) for the national Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) from 2010-2013 from 2016 to 2019 he sat on CCA’s Board of Directors. He died on June 19, 2020 at Grand River Hospital following a brief illness. (Source: DBPedia)

    Publishing years

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      2012
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      2010
    1
      2008

    Series

    1. Governance series (1)