CAP Medal and Award Winners
The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and its medal partners are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 CAP medals.
The 2023 medalists have been invited to give a plenary lecture as part of the 2023 CAP Conference program, and to receive their medals at the Medalists' Recognition Dinner in Fredericton, NB on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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