Prestigious physics medals awarded to SFU professor

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Mike Thewalt, SFU physicis, 604.291.5740

April 21, 2004

Simon Fraser University experimental physicist Mike Thewalt recently received the Canadian Association of Physicists’ (CAP) most prestigious award – the 2004 CAP Medal of Achievement. The award recognizes his innovative studies of the optical properties of semiconductors. This research has led to significant new understandings of semiconductor physics which could eventually have an impact on how quantum computers are built.

CAP also awarded Thewalt with the 2004 Brockhouse medal for outstanding achievement in condensed matter and materials physics.

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Canadian Association of physicists: www.cap.ca/home.html

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