The Road to Stockholm

Feb 2, 2016

Dr. McDonald formally received his Nobel Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

October: It has been a whirlwind few months for Professor Emeritus Art McDonald. Following the Oct. 6 announcement of the Nobel Prize for Physics, the world’s attention focused on Dr. McDonald and his co-winner, Dr. Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo.

October & November: Over the next weeks and months, Dr. McDonald’s work was covered by media around the world, from The New York Times to The Indian Awaaz.

Dr. McDonald also showed his lighter side in , during which he patiently demonstrated the notion of a neutrino changing flavours using an iconic Canadian donut, the Timbit.

In November, Dr. McDonald and the SNO Collaboration received another major award: the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The SNO Collaboration shared the $3-million prize with four other international experimental collaborations studying neutrino oscillations: the Superkamiokande, Kamland, T2K/K2K and Daya Bay scientific collaborations.

  • Dr. McDonald formally received his Nobel Prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall.
  • The Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy held a celebration for Dr. McDonald. Here, he chats with students in Stirling Hall

    Stéphane Courteau

  • Dr. Art McDonald, the inaugural chair of the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics, pictured with Patricia and Gordon Gray.
  • Group of 6 physics colleagues sitting down

    Bernard Clark

  • At the Homecoming football game in October, Dr. McDonald opened the game with a ceremonial kick-off.

    Suzy Lamont

  • Dr. McDonald shaking hands with a football player during Homecoming

    Suzy Lamont

  • Professor Emeritus Arthur McDonald speaking during the "Big Bang Send-off" event in Grant Hall

    Bernard Clark

  • Dr. McDonald with members of the Queen’s Bands after a university-wide “Big Bang Send-off” with students, staff and faculty in Grant Hall.

    Bernard Clark

  • Timbits

    Bernard Clark

  • Dr. Art McDonald at the press conference with the Nobel Laureates
  • Dr. Art McDonald with Börje Salming

    Gunnar Seijbold

  • Dr. McDonald speaking at the Nobel lecture at Stockholm University

    Gunnar Seijbold

  • Dr. McDonald formally shaking hands with King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall
  • Dr. McDonald at a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall
  • At the Nobel banquet: Michiko and Takaaki Kajita, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden, and Art and Janet McDonald

    Alexander Mahmoud

  • Dr. Art McDonald at the taping of the Nobel Minds program

    Gunnar Seijbold

December: He also took the time to celebrate with the Queen’s community before he left for Sweden to accept his award. At the ֱ "Big Bang" send-off in Grant Hall, members of the ֱ community watched  created by Studio Q, a ֱ AMS student-run creative agency. The video includes messages from colleagues from SNOLAB and ֱ, Governor General David Johnston, and Ted Hsu, former MP for Kingston & the Islands (and himself a ֱ physics grad.)

When Dr. McDonald formally received his Nobel medal from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in a ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, back in Kingston, members of the Queen’s campus gathered in Stirling Hall to .

While in Stockholm, Dr. McDonald took part in Nobel Minds 2015, a BBC roundtable discussion with his fellow Nobel laureates in science, economic sciences and literature.

January: In January, Dr. McDonald, an Officer of the Order of Canada since 2006, was promoted within the Order, to Companion.

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