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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.
May 16, 2024 · Arthur B. McDonald (born August 29, 1943, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian physicist who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the oscillations of neutrinos from one flavor (electron, muon, or tau) to another, which proved that these subatomic particles had mass.
Arthur B. McDonald The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 . Born: 29 August 1943, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada . Affiliation at the time of the award: Queen's University, Kingston, Canada . Prize motivation: “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass” Prize share: 1/2
Biographical. I was born in 1943 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, a city of about 30,000 people on Cape Breton Island. My mother’s and father’s families were Scottish and French settlers who had come to Atlantic Canada in the 1700s and early 1800s.
Arthur B. McDonald, Nobel Laureate: Queen’s Professor Emeritus Dr. Arthur B. McDonald is the co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics. At an early age, Arthur B. McDonald was already busy trying to figure out the way things work.
Arthur B. McDonald discusses what brought him to science; his Nobel Prize-awarded work (1:34); a tough challenge in his life (2:25); what motivates him (4:49); remaining questions in his field (7:11); when he does his best thinking (9:42); Eureka moments (11:33); what advice he would give himself at 20 years (13:51) and intelligence (18:44).
Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, McDonald earned his undergraduate (1964) and master's degrees (1965) in physics from Dalhousie University in Halifax. He graduated from Cal Tech with his Ph.D. in nuclear physics in 1969.
