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2015 Nobel Prize in Physics Issue 1, 2016 The magazine of Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario queensu.ca/alumnireview Queen’ALu Mn IrevIsew The biggest, deepest questions Physicists of Queen’s Life after physics Dr. Arthur McDonald AND THE 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics THE NEUTRINO BREAKTHROUGH The Smart, Seccure & Simple Opporrtunity TToo Invest In Downtown KKingston’s Premier Condominium 5DUHRSSRUWXQLW\ ¿UVW RI LWV NLQG LQ .LQJVWRQ ,QYHVW ZLWK H[FHOOHQW HDUQLQJ SRWHQWLDO • )DEXORXVVXLWHV ZLWK ZDWHUUIIURQW YLHZV H[FHOOHQW DPHQLWLHVXQGHUJURXQG SDUNLQJ DQG SUUHHPLHU ORFDWLRQ • &RQYHQLHQWO\ORFDWHG VWHSV IURP 4XHHQ¶V 8QLYHUUVVLW\ VKRSSLQJDQG WKH ZDWHUUIIURQW 5HVLGHQWV ZLOO KDYH HYHU\WKLQJ WKH\QHHG DW WKHLU ¿QJHUUWWLSV 3URYHQ E\ D ZDON VFRUH +$1'62)),19(670(17 33$$&..$$*( ,1&/8'(' FREE PROPEERTY MANAGEMENT FREE FURNISHING PPACKAGEACKAGE 125,6.RENNTTALALL GUARANTEE 11, 2 and 3 bedroom suites priced from the mmid $200s Call 613-9000-2232 or visit online at the capitolcondos.com IN8DEVELOPMENTS.CA contents Issue w, xvw|, Volume v, Number w Serving the Queen’s community since wx} queensu.ca/alumnireview n Queen’ALu Mn IrevIsew Editor’s notebook o Letters to the editor q From the principal d u o M h a r M r Quid Novi e d N a News from campus x e l a y B o t t o h In memoriam: P 5 1 0 Principal Emeritus 2 B a Ron Watts k a r i a d l e C M d l r e a B mt N o r N mn np e The road to Stockholm B © Cover sTory The biggest, nl The neutrino b]^ men/How to clean deepest questions a neutrino detector breakthrough The questions don’t get any bigger than the Dr. Art McDonald and the b]^ ones probed by faculty and students in Stirling or Collaboration captured the world’s Hall. Where do we come from? How did the Advancement spotlight attention with the October universe evolve? What is it made of? And why, announcement of the Nobel Prize in according to the laws of physics, does the world pl Physics. Learn about the years of work work the way it does? Keeping in touch that led to the neutrino breakthrough. By wAnDA PrAAMsMA By IvAn seMenIuk qo QUAA president’s message qp Your global alumni network qr The year in research and innovation qt Ex libris New books from k r a l faculty and alumni C d r a N r nr e B rl The last word: Physicists of Queen’s Life after physics PhD student Nishan Singh Mann and Professor Stephen Hughes step into the spotlight in this photo essay on physics and astronomy research at Queen’s . By wAnDA PrAAMsMA On the cover: Neutrinos flood from the core of the sun to the Earth, where they are studied in a lab deep undergound. Illustrator Carl Wiens captures the breadth of the neutrino breakthrough (with a whimsical tricolour touch). illustratioN By Carl WieNs, i2iart.CoM ed ito rs no TeBoo’k Our physics issue hat an amazing few months it has been since we first learned the volume 90, no. 1, 2016 Wnews of Art McDonald’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Now, you may [email protected] think that being handed such a great story would have made it easy to queensu.ca/alumnireview put together a magazine issue. But I had a dilemma: how was I going @queensureview to tell the story of a Nobel Prize in a new way in a magazine coming The Queen’s Alumni review (circ. wx},vvv), is published out four months after the news broke? The more I looked into it, the by Queen’s University Relations more there was to tell: the nature of neutrinos themselves, the early (comprising Communications, days of b]^ research at Queen’s and around the world, the amazing Marketing and Government Relations). Queen’s is a member of the Council research happening right now and being planned for the future at the for the Advancement and Support of b]^[ST facility in Sudbury. And then there were all the other stories Education and the Canadian Council Queen’s for the Advancment of Education. emerging from the Subscriptions are free to alumni, Department of Physics, Engineer - $x{ UV] /year for others. Opinions ing Physics & Astronomy – those expressed in the Review are not necessarily those of Queen’s Queen’s researchers and students University or of the `dSS . expanding our knowledge of the Ybb] # v~zy-~vz~ universe. And I had a limited Queen’s university page count and a very limited Principal and vice-Chancellor Daniel R. Woolf, Artsci’~v k r grasp of physics. a v-P university relations l C So I called upon the experts. d Michael Fraser r a N Ivan Semeniuk, science reporter executive Director Marketing r e B for The Globe and Mail , wrote our Helena Debnam cover story. He gives us an editor Andrea Gunn, \_S ’v} international and historical perspective on the work leading up to the Assistant editor neutrino breakthrough. (As a bonus, he also provides an experiment Wanda Praamsma you can try at home to understand the nature of neutrinos.) Then I staff contributor asked Carl Wiens (who illustrated our feature “Research that can change Radissen Ramoutar, Artsci’wx your life… really!” in issue w-xvw{) to create illustrations for both our Contributors Bernard Clark, John Meisel, cover and Ivan’s story. The always patient Dr. McDonald corrected Ivan Semeniuk, Carl Wiens me on my shaky grasp of science when needed (and no, he didn’t use Art Director Timbits). George Ewan further helped me to understand the history of Larry Harris, University Marketing the b]^ Collaboration. Marc Dignam, Head of the Department of Associate Designer (kIT) Wilma van Wyngaarden Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, connected me and my Advertising/sponsorship officer colleagues with some of the very talented researchers in his depart - Peter Gillespie, Artsci’vw ment. And they, in turn, introduced us to some of the undergraduate Phone: |wy.{yy.|vvv ext. }{z|z and graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with whom they Email: [email protected] 2014-2016 Queen’s university work. (Above, I chat with Drs. Alvine Kamaha and Gilles Gerbier.) My Alumni Association President colleague Wanda Praamsma had the daunting task of condensing George M. Jackson, Artsci’~{ down the results of her interviews with these groups of researchers The mission of the QuAA working in dark matter, light matter, microphysics, nanophysics and “To reach out and foster a lifelong association with Queen’s , to engage astronomy. our members in the life and work of the university, and to serve the alumni community in all its diversity.” Canada Post publications A note on language mail permit #41089017 Emeritus or emerita? You will see that, in our Letters to the editor Queen’s University University Avenue column, I have included one letter from a professor emerita and one Kingston, ^] Z}[ y]| from a professor emeritus, both women. Both words are quite correct. Phone: |wy.{yy.|vvv ext. }}vw| “Emerita” is the feminine form of the adjective “emeritus,” which is used Fax: |wy.{yy.|~x~ to modify a masculine noun, but may also be used in a gender-neutral To update your address or to sign context. Nouns, too, can be gendered or gender-neutral. So, a female up for the digital magazine, email: graduate of this or any other university may refer to herself either as an [email protected] alumna or an alumnus. And while, as a writer and editor, I strive for the or call w.~vv.x|}.}~y} (toll-free in Canada and d.b. ) perfect word for every occasion and I adore consistency, I also am a firm believer in a woman’s right to choose her own nomenclature. As always, alumni and alumnae, let me know what you think of this issue. [email protected] B n issue 1, 2016 | queensu.ca/alumnireview le Ttterso The eDITor On Ronald Watts to, but how does so little contact add up Why was I so saddened on hearing of to being influenced by someone? the death of Dr. Ronald Watts, when I For me, he stood for integrity of pur - scarcely knew him? He was the tutor of pose and being, for quality in the way he my first-year philosophy class in w|x-|y, conducted his life as a professor, for during which he answered our hesitant dignified treatment of the young, for questions with a graciousness, elabora - grace. He was always there in my mind, tion of detail, and dignity far surpassing a generation ahead of me, associated the quality of those questions. My hus - with my time at Queen’s , teaching me band, Fred Wien, says that one of the how to live without my awareness of it – worst days of his life was when he honesty, ethical encounters, and a sup - showed up for a philosophy exam a day portive professional kindness for those late. Dr. Watts, his tutor, (who later coming along. He stood as an example of taught him in depth about Canadian the high quality Queen’s had to offer, an federalism) managed to find a graceful example of how to live a good life, how to solution. Dr. Watts hooded me when I contribute at the highest levels to one’s graduated in w|{ with a general Arts society. A fine mind, a good heart, the degree, and I was glad it was him. But moral compass of integrity: it added up to why? Over the years, I heard him speak a profound impact he never knew he had.
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