Physics: Arthur McDonald

Physics: Arthur McDonald
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Arthur McDonald (1943) Arthur Bruce McDonald P.

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Arthur McDonald (1943) Arthur Bruce McDonald P. Why is Arthur McDonald remembered? Every major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Arthur McDonald was one of those people. About Arthur 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. He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.