Arthur B. McDonald

Arthur B. McDonald CC OOnt ONS FRS FRSC
Arthur B. McDonald in Stockholm in December 2015
Born	Arthur Bruce McDonald (1943-08-29) August 29, 1943 (age 73) North Sydney, Nova Scotia
Residence	Kingston, Ontario
Nationality	Canadian
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	Princeton University Queen's University
Alma mater	Dalhousie University (BSc, MSc) Caltech (PhD)
Thesis	Excitation energies and decay properties of T = 3/2 states in 17O, 17F and 21Na. (1970)
Doctoral advisor	William Alfred Fowler
Known for	Solving the solar neutrino problem
Notable awards	OC (2006) Benjamin Franklin Medal (2007) FRS (2009) Henry Marshall Tory Medal (2011) OOnt (2012) Nobel Prize in Physics (2015) CC (2015) (promotion) Fundamental Physics Prize (2016)
Website queensu.ca/physics/arthur-mcdonald

Arthur Bruce McDonald, CC OOnt ONS FRS FRSC (born August 29, 1943) is a Canadian astrophysicist. McDonald is the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute and holds the Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Japanese physicist Takaaki Kajita.

McDonald was born on August 29, 1943, in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He graduated with a B.Sc. in physics in 1964 and M.Sc. in physics in 1965 from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. He then obtained his Ph.D. in physics in 1969 from the California Institute of Technology.

McDonald worked as a research officer at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories northwest of Ottawa from 1970 to 1982. He became professor of physics at Princeton University from 1982 to 1989, leaving Princeton to join Queen's University. He is currently the University Research Chair at Queen's University and a board member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.