CAP Medal and Award Winners
The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and its medal partners are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 CAP medals.
The 2024 medalists have been invited to give a plenary lecture as part of the 2024 CAP Conference program, and to receive their medals at the Medalists' Recognition Dinner in London, ON on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Please refer to the
Congress-at-a-glance for the schedule of plenary lectures by the CAP medal winners. If any of the medalists are unable to attend the conference, their medal will be presented at another mutually agreed upon time or sent to them separately after the conference.
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Douglas Andrew Bryman , UBC ,
in recognition of his remarkable contributions to particle physics through his work and leadership on a broad range of experiments testing fundamental phenomena at the precision frontier.
"Experimental particle physics is a team sport and I’ve been extremely fortunate to have collaborated with highly talented and committed colleagues, postdocs, students, and technical professionals. It’s an honor to have our research work recognized by the CAP TRIUMF Vogt Medal. My close associations with TRIUMF and Erich Vogt make the award particularly meaningful to me." view the press release
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Paul Garrett , University of Guelph ,
in recognition of his recent demonstration that the collective excitations of nuclei in the cadmium region, previously understood to be text book examples of vibrations about a spherical shape, are better described as rotations of coexisting deformed shapes, and hence that spherical vibrational nuclei are either very rare or do not exist.
"I am incredibly honoured to have been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Vogt medal considering the strength of the Canadian subatomic physics community. I am especially grateful to my collaborators and talented team of students and post-doctoral researchers for their work and tireless efforts in our studies." view the press release
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Asimina Arvanitaki , Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics ,
in recognition of her innovative contributions to a number of areas of fundamental physics and in particular for identifying experiments that could test the underlying physics.
"I am extremely humbled to have received this award. It’s always special to be recognized by your scientific peers, and I would like to thank both the Canadian Association of Physicists and TRIUMF from the bottom of my heart." view the press release
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Sangyong Jeon , McGill University ,
in recognition of to recognize his contributions to the theory of relativistic heavy-ion collisions and of the resulting quark-gluon plasma.
"I am deeply honoured to receive this year’s CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal. I would like to thank all my collaborators, students, and postdocs over the years. Without them and the tradition of strong subatomic physics research at McGill, this would not have been possible." view the press release
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Gordon C. Ball , TRIUMF ,
in recognition of for fundamental contributions to low-energy tests of the Standard Model through ultra-high precision measurements of superallowed Fermi beta decays and for his leadership in the development of the ISAC science program at TRIUMF.
"I am truly honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal. To be chosen for this award by the Canadian Subatomic Physics community is a very humbling experience. I am especially grateful to all my ISAC-science collaborators with whom I wish to share this recognition." view the press release
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Scott Oser , University of British Columbia and TRIUMF ,
in recognition of for his contributions to the study of neutrino oscillations with the SNO and T2K experiments, and to experimental searches for dark matter with SuperCDMS. He has demonstrated excellence in hardware design and construction, data analysis, scientific interpretation of the results, organization, and leadership. The award is in recognition of the breadth of his scientific endeavours, demonstrable expertise, and high impact in each experiment.
"I feel truly honoured to receive the 2019 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal. Looking over the impressive list of previous winners is humbling for me, and only amplifies my thanks for this recognition. As the first winner from UBC, where Erich Vogt was a veritable institution and an inspiration to many, this is a particularly meaningful honour for me." view the press release
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Rituparna Kanungo , Saint Mary's University ,
in recognition of for her leadership and contribution in the field of direct reaction and halo-nuclei studies with rare isotopes, including ground breaking discoveries of doubly-magic oxygen isotope.
"I feel highly honoured receiving this prestigious recognition which I would like to share with my collaborators. Canada’s world-leading subatomic physics facilities attracted me here, thanks to the pioneering efforts by Erich Vogt. I feel fortunate with the support I received, and want to thank the physics community and Canada for valuing my contributions." view the press release
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Charles Gale , McGill University ,
in recognition of for advances in theoretical nuclear physics including the theory and modelling of high-energy nuclear collisions.
"Canada has a long and illustrious tradition of research in subatomic physics, and I am deeply honoured to have been chosen as this year's recipient of the CAP-TRIUMF Vogt medal. I thank all of my collaborators, and I am thrilled to share this recognition with them." view the press release
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Akira Konaka , TRIUMF ,
in recognition of for his outstanding contributions to the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment, including his leadership in establishing the collaboration. His innovations to the experiment’s design and analysis methods were critical in the discovery of electron neutrino appearance from the muon neutrino beam, a discovery that led to the T2K project being recognized by the 2016 Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics. The committee also recognized ongoing innovations with new concepts proposed to improve the precision of the T2K experiment and, potentially, the Hyper-K experiment.
"I am honoured to share this award with my amazing T2K colleagues in Canada in developing the ground work towards discovering CP violation in neutrino oscillations. This award is particularly important and reminds me of Dr. Erich Vogt’s cheerful encouragements of my research." view the press release
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Pierre Savard , University of Toronto/ TRIUMF ,
in recognition of for his contributions to particle physics and in particular for his leadership of the Higgs -> WW analysis, which was an important ingredient in establishing that the discovered particle was, in fact, the Higgs boson.
"It is a great honour to receive this award which I would like to share with the ATLAS Canada researchers whose central contributions to the design and the construction of the experiment, and to the analysis of the data, helped make the discovery of the Higgs boson possible." view the press release
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David London , Universite de Montreal ,
in recognition of for his seminal contributions to theoretical physics especially in the field B physics.
"Canada's activities in the field of subatomic physics are extremely deep and varied. Its world-class researchers are involved in a wide range of subjects, including phenomenology, cosmology and more formal topics on the theory side, and collider physics, B factories and astroparticle physics on the experimental side. It is an enormous honour to be selected from among them and to be awarded the 2014 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal." view the press release
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Jens Dilling , TRIUMF ,
in recognition of for his leadership in the development and implementation of new ion trapping and precision mass measurement techniques applied to radioactive nuclei which have dramatically advanced our understanding of halo nuclei and the role of 3 body forces in nuclear systems.
"Being awarded the CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Subatomic Physics is tremendous and it means a lot to me personally because of my respect for Erich Vogt and what he helped create at TRIUMF. I see this award as a reflection by the CAP community on my contributions as an experimentalist and the successes we have had with the ISAC facility at TRIUMF, now a world-class rare-isotope beam facility, as well as on the involvement I have had with the SNOLAB facility---another prime example of Canadian scientific leadership on the global scale. I am very, very proud to accept this honor. I thank my fellow CAP members and the broader TRIUMF community for this award." view the press release
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Robert Myers , Perimeter Institute/University of Waterloo ,
in recognition of for his outstanding contributions to advancing the frontiers of string theory and its application to theories of gravitation, black holes, and QCD.
"Canada has a long tradition of research in subatomic physics and continues to be home to a vigorous community of world-class researchers in this field. Hence I am very honoured and grateful to be selected from amongst my colleagues as the recipient of the 2012 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal." view the press release
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David Sinclair , Carleton University and TRIUMF ,
in recognition of for his exceptional vision and contributions to the study of neutrino physics in the pioneering SNO experiment, and for exemplary leadership in establishing the SNOLab facility.
"I am extremely honoured to be selected to receive this award. Canada has such a strong program in sub-atomic physics encompassing the whole spectrum of nuclear physics, particle physics at the energy frontier, fundamental symmetries, nuclear astrophysics and more recently astro-particle physics, because there are so many very accomplished scientists working in this field. To be selected from this field for the inaugural medal is a very special honour for me. I am particularly pleased that the medal bears Erich Vogt’s name. When I was a graduate student, Erich had already established a reputation as an outstanding scientist and scholar. His leadership has been so important to creating the rich program that we are so proud of today." view the press release
