Richard N. (Dick) Henriksen has been a full professor of astrophysics at Queen's University, Ontario, since 1978 and is a recipient of their research excellence award. In addition, he has been a senior visitor at Stanford, a Humboldt Fellow in Germany and Engineur/chercheur at CEA Saclay in France. He was one of the two founders of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in 1984-85, which resides at the University of Toronto and has become one of the world's premier centres for Astrophysics. He has published more than 125 research papers, many of which employ scaling and relativistic concepts. He is author of the recent Wiley undergraduate textbook entitled "Practical Relativity", Professor Henriksen has extensive lecturing experience, having lectured at all graduate and undergraduate levels in physics, as well as presenting many professional colloquia.