the authors bring to these topics". Peter W. Hochachka died of prostate cancer and lymphoma on September 16, 2002. One of his last publications was a "groundbreaking paper" co-authored with his surgeons on the connections between hypoxia and prostate cancer. Peter Hochachka was married to Brenda Hochachka (née Clayton). They had three children: Claire, Gail and Gareth. Honours Highly honoured, Hochachka was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1983. He was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal in 1990. Hochachka was awarded the Canada Council Killam Memorial Prize in Science in 1993 and the NSERC Gold Medal for Science and Engineering in 1995 (now the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering). In 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. See also Comparative physiology Evolutionary physiology References 1937 births 2002 deaths 20th-century Canadian zoologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Officers of the Order of Canada Duke University alumni University of Alberta alumni Dalhousie University alumni Canadian people of Ukrainian descent People from the Municipal District of Bonnyville No. 87 University of British Columbia faculty