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2015 CAP Medal and Award Winners

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The 2015 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics is awarded to

Prof. Charles Gale, McGill University, in recognition of for his distinguished original research contributions to three areas of theoretical nuclear physics: the determination of the equation of state from medium energy heavy ion collisions, the use of photons, lepton pairs and jets as probes of the hot and dense matter formed in high energy heavy ion collisions, and the implementation of a state-of-the-art computer code for 3+1 dimensional second-order viscous relativistic fluid dynamics for heavy ion collisions.


"I am thrilled and honoured to receive this award, and I am grateful to the CAP and to the CRM for their sponsorship, and to my peers for their support. I gladly share this recognition with my family, and my students and collaborators, past and present."

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The 2015 CAP-COMP Peter Kirkby Memorial Medal for Outstanding Service to Canadian Physics is awarded to

Prof. Gordon Drake, University of Windsor, in recognition of for the key role he played in preparing the case to NSERC for increased funding for physics in the 1990's, for his untiring promotion of Canadian physics through his participation or leadership in numerous international and Canadian physics organizations and committees, and for his effective communication of physics to the non-scientific community..


"Service to the profession of Physicist is the single most important thing that the CAP does, and the Kirkby Medal is the highest form of recognition for contributions to this objective. I feel deeply honoured to be selected to receive the Kirkby Medal for 2015. My contributions have not only brought me great personal satisfaction, but also brought me many friends from amongst the most interesting people in Canada"

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The 2015 CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal is awarded to

Dr. John Page, University of Manitoba, in recognition of for significant and original contributions to the understanding of ultrasonic wave phenomena in complex media through the development and application of new experimental techniques to characterize the structure and dynamics of such materials, including the first demonstration of Anderson localization of classical waves by disorder in three dimensions.


"I feel very thrilled and honoured to be the recipient of the 2015 Brockhouse Medal. This recognition by the Canadian Condensed Matter and Material Physics community is a wonderful tribute that also reflects the contributions of my talented graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and collaborators with whom I have had the pleasure of working."

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The 2015 CAP Medal for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Physics is awarded to

Dr. Chitra Rangan, University of Windsor, in recognition of for her unstoppable commitment to optimizing student interest in physics by employing a wide range of active instructional strategies to enhance student learning, and for being a steadfast advocate for active and research-based learning as well as effective communication skills in science.


"I am thrilled and humbled that my colleagues and students nominated and supported me for this national award. Thanks to the CAP for valuing and promoting undergraduate physics teaching excellence."

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The 2015 CAP Herzberg Medal is awarded to

Prof. François Légaré, INRS-EMT, in recognition of for ultrafast molecular imaging, development of high peak power infrared lasers for high harmonic generation and tissue imaging with nonlinear optical microscopy techniques.


"It is a great honour to receive the 2015 CAP Herzberg medal. This recognizes the quality of the research performed with an outstanding team and the technical members of the Advanced Laser Light Source."

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The 2015 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics is awarded to

Prof. John F. Martin, University of Toronto / IPP, in recognition of for his contributions to experimental particle physics and his leadership role in the international physics community.


"It is a great honour to be awarded this CAP medal. The experimental subatomic physics program in Canada has grown tremendously during my career, both in scope and international impact, and it has been quite an adventure to be involved. My contributions have been very much part of a collaborative enterprise, and in that spirit I consider that I’m sharing this recognition with my many colleagues."

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The 2015 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for Contributions to Subatomic Physics is awarded to

Prof. 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."

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The 2015 CAP Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial and Applied Physics was not awarded this year.


"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."