Professor emeritus Arthur McDonald and the entire SNO Collaboration who have been awarded one-fifth of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

 

Congratulations to professor emeritus Arthur McDonald and the entire SNO Collaboration who have been awarded one-fifth of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics!

The Prize was presented at 10 PM ET on Sunday November 8 by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation ā€œfor the fundamental discovery of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of particle physicsā€. The $ 3 million prize is shared with four other international experimental collaborations studying neutrino oscillations: The Superkamiokande, Kamland, T2K/K2K and Daya Bay scientific collaborations.

Dr. McDonald joined the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at Queenā€™s in 1989 and served as the director of SNO. He has been a professor emeritus since 2013. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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