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2022 CAP Medal and Award Winners

The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and its medal partners are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 CAP medals. A series of virtual plenary medal talks to honour the 2022 medal recipients will be organized for the latter half of January. Once the dates have been finalized, the detailed talk schedule will be posted on the CAP's website and a NewsFlash will be released. The medals will be forwarded to all recipients with the congratulations of the community.
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The 2022 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics is awarded to

Prof. David London, Université de Montréal, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the theory of elementary particles, including trailblazing contributions to the analysis of B meson decays and CP violation in the Standard Model of particle physics.

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The 2022 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics is awarded to

Hoi-Kwong Lo, University of Toronto, in recognition of his outstanding impact on the field of Quantum communication in terms of practical implementations, laying the groundwork for commercial products for the Quantum internet. Dr Lo is a researcher of truly international caliber, with large impact at the forefront of quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution (QKD) physics.

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The 2022 CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal is awarded to

Prof. Federico Rosei, INRS-EMT, in recognition of his experimental work on tailoring the properties of a wide array of nanomaterials to find applications in photovoltaics, biocompatibility and self-assembling systems.

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The 2022 CAP Medal for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Physics is awarded to

Prof. James Charbonneau, University of British Columbia, in recognition of his teaching excellence and educational leadership at the University of British Columbia, including contributions to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and development of open-source educational software.

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The 2022 CAP Herzberg Medal is awarded to

Prof. Daryl Haggard, McGill University, in recognition of her leadership role in the development of multimessenger astronomy, and the ground-breaking discovery of the electromagnetic signal accompanying gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars.

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The 2022 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics is awarded to

Prof. Charles Gale, McGill University, in recognition of his profound contributions as a world leader in high-energy nuclear science, and in the physics of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions of high temperature and density .

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The 2022 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for Contributions to Subatomic Physics is awarded to

Dr. 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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