13 November 2020 The CAP is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 High School/Cégep Teacher Awards The Canadian Association of Physicists and our award partners highlighted below join members of our physics and high school/cégep teaching communities in congratulating the winners of the 2020 High School/Cégep Teacher Awards. We are very proud of… Read more »
Grouping: Award News
The CAP is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2020 High School/Cégep Teacher Awards
The Canadian Association of Physicists and our award partners highlighted below join members of our physics and high school/cégep teaching communities in congratulating the winners of the 2020 High School/Cégep Teacher Awards. We are very proud of these exemplary recipients. 2020 CAP Award for Excellence in Teaching High School/CEGEP Physics (Ontario) is awarded to Shawn… Read more »
The CAP and its medal partners present the recipients of the 2020 CAP medals
The Canadian Association of Physicists joins members of our community in congratulating the winners of the 2020 CAP medals. We are very proud of these exemplary recipients and look forward to their medal talk presentations in the near future. Details will follow as soon as the schedule has been finalized. 2020 CAP Medal for Excellence in… Read more »
The 2020 Inaugural Allan Carswell Physics Educator Scholarships
The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) is pleased to announce that the inaugural Allan Carswell Physics Educator Scholarships are being awarded to two outstanding aspiring physics educators. With the help of the Allan Carswell Physics Educator Scholarship, valued at up to $5000 each, the winners will pursue a career in physics education at the secondary school… Read more »
Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Graduate Scholarship
Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Graduate Scholarship Congratulations Matthew Robbins! The CAP is pleased to announce that the 2020 Stoicheff Scholarship is awarded to Matthew Robbins, University of Waterloo, for leadership in developing the theory of Bose-Einstein condensates as a novel detector of gravitational waves that would open a new window on the universe for astronomical… Read more »
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced that the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded with one half to Roger Penrose of the Univ. of Oxford (UK), for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel,… Read more »
Reminder : Nominate a worthy colleague for a 2020 CAP Medal/Award – Deadlines are from Jan.15 – Feb.28, 2020
Upcoming Deadlines to Recognize Excellence and Peers in Canadian Physics We need your help to recognize excellence in Canadian physics. Nominate a colleague today for one of these prestigious awards or positions. Deadlines are from January 15 to February 28, 2020. Medals for Research: CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse medal to recognize and encourage outstanding experimental or theoretical contributions… Read more »
Upcoming Deadlines to Recognize Excellence and Peers in Canadian Physics
We need your help to recognize excellence in Canadian physics. Nominate a colleague today for one of these prestigious awards or positions. Medals for Research: CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse medal to recognize and encourage outstanding experimental or theoretical contributions to condensed matter and material physics. More information here. Deadline: January 15, 2020 CAP Herzberg medal to recognize outstanding achievement in… Read more »