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Queen's Professor emeritus named
co-winner of nobel Prize in Physics
the Royal Society of the UK and
Commonwealth in 2009. In 2010
he received the Killam Prize in
the Natural Sciences, in 2011 he
received the Henry Marshall Tory
Medal from the Royal Society of
Canada, its highest award for sci-
entific achievement; and in 2013
he was awarded the European
Physics Society HEP Division Gi-
useppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize
for Particle Astrophysics.
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Queen's University Professor
Emeritus Dr. Arthur B. McDonald
is the co-winner of the 2015 Nobel
Prize in physics for his research
into neutrinos, one of the funda-
mental particles that make up the
universe.
The announcement made by the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sci-
ences in Stockholm, said Dr. Mc-
Donald won the award, along with
Takaaki Kajita of the University of
Tokyo, "for their key contributions
to the experiments which dem-
onstrated that neutrinos change
identities." Their findings solved a
puzzle that physicists had wrestled
with for decades, the academy
added.
"I am truly honoured to receive
the Nobel Prize in physics," Dr. Mc-
Donald said in response to winning
the prestigious prize. "While I am
a co-winner of the Nobel Prize, the
honour really represents a culmina-
tion of the hard work and contribu-
tions of Canadian and international
colleagues with whom I have col-
laborated with during my career."
In 1989, Dr. McDonald joined
Queen's University as a professor
of physics and director of the Sud-
bury Neutrino Observatory (SNO),
now known as SNOLAB, located
in Vale's Creighton mine near Sud-
bury, ON. Working in the world's
deepest underground laboratory,
the SNOLAB team discovered that
neutrinos – sub-atomic particles
considered the basic building
blocks of the universe – change
from one type to another on their
journey to Earth from the sun.
This finding confirmed that these
fundamental particles have a finite
mass and that the current models
for energy generation in the sun
are very accurate.
Dr. McDonald continues to
conduct research in the field of
particle astrophysics, leading
further analysis of the data from
all phases of the SNO experiment
and participating in the DEAP
and SNO+ experiments. Dr. Mc-
Donald and his colleagues also
continue to work on cutting-edge
research in areas of theoretical,
computational, applied and ex-
perimental physics.
For his research, Dr. McDon-
ald has received a number of
awards and recognitions includ-
ing being elected a Fellow of
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