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Robert Orr

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Academy or College

Academy of Science

Year Elected

2009

Areas of Interest

Particle physics, particle accelerators, climate change

Robert Orr is one of Canada's leading experimental particle physicists, having made crucial contributions to discoveries in elementary particles. Through the development and exploitation of new experimental techniques, he has made seminal contributions to the study of the electroweak interaction, proton structure and heavy quark physics.

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ORR, Robert Steell –Department of Physics, University of Toronto
Robert Orr is one of Canada's leading experimental particle physicists, having made crucial contributions to discoveries in elementary particles. Through the development and exploitation of new experimental techniques, he has made seminal contributions to the study of the electroweak interaction, proton structure and heavy quark physics. Through his leadership, a team of 100 Canadian scientists is playing a significant role in the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, a project designed to uncover the fundamental mechanism for mass and search for phenomena that would allow us to understand the properties of the basic forces.