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Louis Backer Jaques was born in Toronto on July 10th, 1911, to Robert Jaques and Ann Bella Shepherd. The middle of three children in a happy warm family, he received his education at Ryerson Public School and then Harbord Collegiate. He attended the University of Toronto and earned a BA in physiology and biochemistry (1932) and a MA in Physiology (1935). After graduation, he went on working in the laboratory of the Department of Physiology, pursuing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Charles H. Best and completed his doctor’s degree in 1941. in 1937 he received an appointment from Dr. Best as a demonstrator (later instructor) for the mammalian physiology labs for medical students, a teaching position he held till 1946. He was also assigned the lecture program for the dental students in 1940. In 1946, Dr. Jaques moved to the University of Saskatchewan with an appointment as professor and head of the Department of Physiology, a post he held until 1971. Following that he accepted a position as (the first) W.S. Lindsay Professor in the College of Medicine. Upon his retirement in 1979 he was named Professor Emeritus; and in 1981 he was named a lay canon by the Anglican diocese of Saskatoon
A scientist of international reputation, Jaques studied various aspects of blood coagulation and heparin as an anticoagulant. He was among the first to demonstrate the usefulness of heparin and dicumarol in treating thrombosis; to investigate the relation of stress to hemorrhage; and to originate the application of silicone in handling blood coagulation. In 1952 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1977 he was awarded the Heart Foundation of Canada Outstanding Service Award as well as a Certificate of Appreciation by the Canadian Hemophilia Society. He died in Toronto on May 16, 1997.