Carolina physicists played key roles in Nobel Award-winning project

Posted Oct 6, 2015
Canadian scientist Arthur B. McDonald, one of two scientists awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics, led a research project that included physicists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The prize was announced Oct. 6 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (UNC.edu)

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