CAP Medal Press Release - 2025 Industrial

The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) is pleased to announce that the 2025 CAP Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial and Applied Physics is awarded to Richard Boudreault, Université de Sherbrooke, in recognition of contributions to medical imaging, photonics, space technology, and sustainable materials. His leadership in translating physics research into real-world applications has driven innovation across multiple industries, advancing technologies that benefit society. announcement

R. Boudreault is a polymath and highly innovative industrial scientist involved applied physics leading from innovations to markets. During his 40 years career he has been and remains a leader in industrial amd applied physics, related to Earth and Planetary Sciences, Nanomaterials, and Energy Production and Storage as well as in Medical Devices technology. Among his latest endeavours, he is involved with a Canadian paradigm changing device, treating COVID-19 and other lung issues and sold in 53 countries. This device not only saves lives, but it reduces hospitalisation duration and cost. Governments are distributing the device, in their fight against the virus and its variants, within their hospital systems. Another immediate example is a low energy atmospheric water generation device using nano porous carbon material, aimed at remote communities in dire need of potable water.

Prof Boudreault has been working on environmental and sustainability issues of the Arctic’s cryosphere for many decades. As the inaugural chairman of POLAR he established a new CHARS Station in Nunavut. His work on Arctic climate change were seminal in identifying and assessing the accelerated differential warming of the poles and their troubling planetary impacts.

Richard is a key leader in the emergence of a Quantum Computing industry in Canada and one of its most effective ambassadors with governmental institutions, both federal and provincial. He uses quantum simulation of chemistry to solve real and significant world problems in water, lithium shorting of li-ion batteries and of the reactive H3+ models considered to be a catalyst in the origination of life in interstellar space.

For his highly productive career as an industrial physicist, he is rewarded with the CAP medal for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial and Applied Physics. nominator citation

ABOUT the Medal

The CAP Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial and Applied Physics (formerly the Prize for Innovative Applied Physics of the CAP's Division of Industrial and Applied Physics) is intended to recognize and promote the creativity of scientists working in Canada in the area of industrial and applied physics, and to particularly recognize the successful application of physical principles to the creation of practical innovations, as demonstrated (for example) by novel/commercializable products or processes, and/or patents. This medal was established in 1991 and has been awarded biennially since.

Dr. Trudeau will be invited to give a plenary talk as part of the 2023 CAP Congress program, and to receive his medal at a Medallists' Recognition Dinner in Fredericton, NB on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. The Awards Dinner is one of the featured events of the CAP Congress hosted by the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB, from June 19-23. Please refer to the Congress outline (https://www.cap.ca/congress-conference/congress-2023/2023-congress-at-a-glance/) for the schedule of plenary talks by the CAP medal winners. If Dr. Trudeau is unable to attend Congress, the medal will be presented at an alternate mutually-agreed upon event or forwarded to him separately following Congress. medal description

ABOUT the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP)

The Canadian Association of Physicists, founded in 1945, is a professional association representing over 1600 individual physicists and physics students in Canada, the U.S. and overseas, as well as a number of Corporate, Institutional, and Departmental Members. In addition to its learned activities, the CAP, through its charitable arm - the CAP Foundation, also undertakes a number of activities intended to encourage students to pursue a career in physics. cap description

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For more information, please contact:

Mrs. Francine Ford, Executive Director
Canadian Association of Physicists
Tel: 343-361-3326
E-mail: execdir@cap.ca
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The 2025 CAP Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial and Applied Physics

Richard Boudreault