Arthur B. McDonald
Canadian astrophysicist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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Born | Arthur Bruce McDonald (1943-08-29) August 29, 1943 (age 80) Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Known for | Solving the solar neutrino problem |
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Fields | Astrophysics |
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Thesis | Excitation energies and decay properties of T = 3/2 states in 17O, 17F and 21Na. (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | Charles A. Barnes |
Website | www |
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