UH Affiliate Professor Arthur McDonald wins 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Posted: Oct 13, 2015

Arthur McDonald
Arthur McDonald

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 is going to two scientists for their key experiments of subatomic particles known as neutrinos. They are Arthur B. McDonald, professor emeritus of Queen’s University in Canada and affiliate professor of physics at the University of Hawaiʻi, and Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo in Japan. Both winners have important ties to UH.

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