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Arthur B. McDonald, in full Arthur Bruce McDonald, (born August 29, 1943, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada), Canadian physicist who was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the oscillations of neutrinos from one flavour (electron, muon, or tau) to another, which proved that these subatomic particles had mass.

Arthur B. McDonald 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 BSc, MSc, PhD Honorary Doctor of Science Dr. Arthur B. McDonald is a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist with a reputation for inspiring leadership, collaboration, and technical innovation.

Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo and Arthur B. McDonald of Queen’s University in Ontario were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discovering that the enigmatic subatomic...

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Prof. Dr. Arthur B. McDonald Nationality Canada Institution Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Award 2015 Discipline Physics Co-recipients Takaaki Kajita Motivation "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass." Read CV Further Information on the Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize Recordings ( 3)

– Arthur B. McDonald Art McDonald, CC, O. Ont, O. N.S., FRS, FRSC, P. Eng, is a native of Sydney, N.S. Canada. He has degrees in physics from Dalhousie University (BSc, MSc) and Caltech (Ph.D.) and fifteen honorary degrees.