Arthur B. McDonald

Arthur B. McDonald, Nobel Laureate

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.

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Nobel Prize Details

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 UniversityKingston, Canada