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The 2012 CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal

is awarded to

Douglas Bonn

"This award is a welcome honour and one that I particularly treasure because I still have wonderful memories of my overlap with Bertram Brockhouse when I was a student at McMaster. He had an early influence on me through his teaching in a second year laboratory and my upbringing as an experimentalist occurred in the materials institute that now bears his name." winner quote

The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) is pleased to announce that the 2012 CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal is awarded to Douglas Bonn, University of British Columbia, in recognition of for his contributions to the field of high temperature superconductivity. announcement

Douglas Bonn’s research has focused primarily on high temperature superconductors since their discovery in 1987. Currently, this research on superconductors is equally divided between microwave and transport measurements, and sample development and preparation for a wide range of external collaborations. His work on microwave properties is in collaboration with Walter Hardy, while the work on sample preparation is performed in collaboration with Ruixing Liang. For many years Doug has been strongly involved in promoting collaborations as a means of enhancing the Canadian effort in high temperature superconductivity. The exchange of samples and ideas between the group at UBC and those at McMaster University, University of Toronto, McGill University, Université de Sherbrooke, Simon Fraser University, and many institutions outside of Canada have greatly enhanced the productivity and visibility of Canadian research in this field. In these collaborations, Doug has been intimately involved in the tailoring of samples to the particular measurement, including far-infrared, SR, ARPES and scanning magnetic microscopy, and in the interpretation of the experimental results. He has published over 170 refereed papers, and presented many invited lectures around the world. Doug is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and an Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has won a number of prizes including the an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1996, the CAP Herzberg Medal in 1997, an E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship and a UBC Killam Research Prize in 1999, and the UBC McDowell Medal in 2001. In 2006, the team of Bonn, Hardy and Liang was awarded the NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize. nominator citation

The purpose of CAP's Brockhouse Medal, which is sponsored jointly by the Division of Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (DCMMP) and the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), is to recognize and encourage outstanding experimental or theoretical contributions to condensed matter and materials physics. It is named in honour of Bertram Brockhouse, whose outstanding contributions to research in condensed matter physics in Canada were recognized by the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physics. The Brockhouse medal was first introduced in 1999 and has been awarded annually since.

Dr. Bonn will be presented with the 2012 CAP Brockhouse Medal at the 2012 CAP Congress (hosted by the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, from June 11-15) at the end of his plenary talk and will be recognized during the Congress banquet to be held on Thursday, June 14th, 2012. Please refer to the Congress program for the schedule of plenary talks by CAP medal winners. medal description

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 also undertakes a number of activities intended to encourage students to pursue a career in physics. cap description

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