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Arthur McDonald, Nobel Prize in Physics 2015

Arthur B. McDonald in Stockholm, December 2015.
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Arthur McDonald, born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1943 and working at Queen’s University, shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering neutrino oscillations, which show that neutrinos have mass.

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The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics as recorded by NobelPrize.org.

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