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The Japan NewsTakaaki Kajita, 56, director of the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Arthur McDonald of Queen’s University, Canada, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

Canadians have good reason for pride in the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics to Arthur McDonald for a breakthrough that, in the words of prize officials, “changed our understanding of the innermost workings of matter”.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 has been awarded to three scientists for discoveries that have transformed treatment of malaria and a few other parasitic diseases, which afflict hundreds of millions of people each year.