Emeritus professor, Physics, Carleton University
Peter Watson joined the Carleton University Department of Physics in 1974 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1984. He became chair of the Dept in 1990 and Dean of Science in 1997. He has taught more than 25 different courses, at all levels, and supervised many graduate and undergraduate students. His research career has mostly been in theoretical physics, with over 50 published papers, and recently he has been working on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. He also worked at Ahmadu Bello University, in Nigeria, and spent 3 sabbaticals working abroad at Villigen, in Switzerland, at the University of Edinburgh and C.E.R.N. in Geneva and the University of Oxford. Although he retired in June 2008, he has continued to teach and do research
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