Arthur B. McDonald

Also known as Arthur Bruce McDonald, Arthur McDonald

Canadian physicist (born 1943)

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Arthur B. McDonald is a Canadian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015 for his work on neutrinos, which are tiny particles that travel through space and matter. His research helped scientists understand the properties of these fundamental particles and deepened our knowledge of how the universe works at the smallest scales.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics2015
“for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”
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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Arthur
Family name: McDonald
Gender: male
Citizenship: Canada
Place of birth: Sydney
Occupation: astrophysicist
Employer: Chalk River Laboratories
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Order of Nova Scotia
Academic degree: Doctor of Sciences
Doctoral advisor: William Alfred Fowler
Student of: William Alfred Fowler
Field of work: physics
Image: Arthur B. McDonald 5139-2015.jpg
Residence: Kingston

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date of birth: 1943-08-29
Commons category: Arthur B. McDonald
member of: National Academy of Sciences
name in native language: Arthur Bruce McDonald
interested in: physics

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Early life

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