Guelph Physicists Part of Research Group Behind 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

On October 6, 2015 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan and Arthur B. McDonald, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. They were awarded “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”.

On the Canadian side Arthur B. McDonald led a research group at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) that “could demonstrate that the neutrinos from the Sun were not disappearing on their way to Earth. Instead they were captured with a different identity when arriving to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.” (View the Nobel Prize in Physics Press Release [1]).

Part of the research group led by Arthur McDonald included physicists from the University of Guelph. The Guelph Group Members were:

Faculty members: Jimmy Law, Bernhard Nickel, Robin Ollerhead, and John Simpson
Graduate students: Thomas Andersen, Marc Bergevin, Myung Chol Chon, Hendrick Labranche, and Nathaniel Tagg
Postdoctoral fellow: Ian Lawson, Diane Reitzner
Research Associates: Pillalamarr Jagam and Jian-Xiong Wang
Guelph Coop Students: Rob Hanson and Jeff Karn

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics Information:

2015 Nobel Prize in Physics Press Release [1]
U of G Research Played Role in Nobel Prize in Physics [2] - University of Guelph Press Release

Physical Review Letters have made the winning research papers available for free online:

Guelph Physicists Part of Research Group Behind 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

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