The NSERC John C. Polanyi Award honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent outstanding advance in the natural sciences or engineering.
The ALPHA-Canada team is the winner of the 2013 Polyani Award for their work with the ALPHA team at CERN in understanding antimatter.
The full list of ALPHA-Canada team members (current and former) includes:
- University of British Columbia : Nathan Evetts*, Andrea Gutierrez*, Walter Hardy, Mario Michan*, Takamasa Momose, Sarah Seif El Nasr*
- University of Calgary : Timothy Friesen*, Richard Hydomako*, Robert Thompson
- Simon Fraser University : Mohammad Ashkezari*, Ryan Dunlop*, Mike Hayden
- TRIUMF : Makoto C. Fujiwara, David Gill, Leonid Kurchaninov, Konstantin Olchanski, Art Olin, James Storey*, Simone Stracka*
- York University : Chanpreet Amole*, Andrea Capra*, Scott Menary
(*Graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. Underlined names indicate CAP members, one of whom, Dr. Robert Thompson, is a member of the CAP Executive)