McDonald, a professor emeritus at Queen’s University in Ontario, split the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics with Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo.
His area of research is neutrinos — itty bitty little subatomic particles that are part of what makes our universe.
2. He did that work using a lab buried 2,000 metres underground that basically looks like a super villain’s secret lair.
What we’re saying here is McDonald is a highly impressive human. So you’d think that when he got the call from the Nobel Prize committee it would be very proper and scientific and mention quarks a few times.