Effective 1 January, Bertil Andersson began serving a five-year appointment as chief executive of the European Science Foundation, based in Strasbourg, France. Andersson was president of Linköping University and a professor of biochemistry at Stockholm University. He succeeded ESF Secretary General Enric Banda, who plans to return to Barcelona, Spain, to take his post as a research professor with the CSIC, an autonomus, multidisciplinary public research body affiliated with the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Art McDonald, a subatomic physicist from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, received the 2003 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering in November at a gala dinner held in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council awarded the medal, NSERC’s highest honor, to McDonald in honor of his contributions to science, particularly his leadership of SNO. The...
