It was refreshing today to see the Whig-Standard feature Professor Art McDonald and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) on its front page. I think it’s worth noting that this group succeeded, and succeeded here in Canada, by putting together some diverse elements: government support for research, foreign collaboration, repatriation of talented Canadians (McDonald was a physics professor at Princeton before returning to Canada to head SNO), risk taking, as well as taking advantage of world-class Canadian resources: a supply of heavy water, a deep underground mine and the technology to work there, and most of all, an existing group of top nuclear physics technicians and scientists.
Perhaps this is an example of what
