The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
Awarded on: 2015-10-06
"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"
Affiliations:
- Queen's University – Kingston, Canada
Arthur B. McDonald
Born: 1943-08-29 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Gender: male
Field: Canadian astrophysicist
Biography
Arthur Bruce McDonald P.Eng is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and held the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 2006 to 2013. He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.