Arthur B. McDonald

Who is Arthur B. McDonald?

Arthur Bruce McDonald 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. Arthur McDonald was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. in physics in 1965 from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. McDonald cited a high school math teacher and his first-year physics professor at Dalhousie as his inspirations for going into the field of physics. He became professor of physics at Princeton University from 1982 to 1989, leaving Princeton to join Queen's University where he was a professor from 1989 to 2013. He then obtained his Ph.D. in physics in 1969 from the California Institute of Technology.

Arthur McDonald worked as a research officer at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories northwest of Ottawa from 1969 to 1982.

Historical significance

He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.