Arthur B. McDonald

Arthur B. McDonald

CC OOnt ONS FRS FRSC
Arthur B. McDonald; CC OOnt ONS FRS FRSC
	McDonald in Stockholm, December 2015
Born	Arthur Bruce McDonald; August 29, 1943; Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	Dalhousie University (BSc, MSc); California Institute of Technology (PhD);
Known for	Solving the solar neutrino problem
Awards	Benjamin Franklin Medal (2007); Henry Marshall Tory Medal (2011); Nobel Prize in Physics (2015); Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016);
	Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	Princeton University; Queen's University;
Thesis	Excitation energies and decay properties of T = 3/2 states in 17O, 17F and 21Na. (1970)
Doctoral advisor	Charles A. Barnes
Website	www.queensu.ca/physics/arthur-b-mcdonald

Arthur Bruce McDonald, CC OOnt ONS FRS FRSC P.Eng (born August 29, 1943) 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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