Alumni, Patricia and Gordon Gray, Contribute to Nobel-Winning Research in Astrophysics

Walk into Gordon and Patricia Gray카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Toronto-area home and the first thing you카지노 게임 컬렉션�ll notice is the chair.

At a 2006 party to celebrate the couple카지노 게임 컬렉션�s decision to lend their names to a Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 chair in particle astrophysics, Gordon, Comm카지노 게임 컬렉션�50 made a joke. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�We카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve paid for a chair,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he said. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Where is it?카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Shortly afterward, Catherine Purcell, the Grays카지노 게임 컬렉션� development relationship manager, surprised them with a captain카지노 게임 컬렉션�s chair complete with the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s emblem and an engraved plaque.

The Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics 카지노 게임 컬렉션� the academic chair, not the one in their foyer 카지노 게임 컬렉션� has been in the media spotlight of late, thanks to the first person to occupy it. Dr. Art McDonald, co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, was the Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics from 2006 to 2014.

A retired real estate executive who orchestrated Toronto카지노 게임 컬렉션�s mammoth TD Centre deal and now runs an animal welfare charity that is offering a generous reward to help catch ivory poachers in Africa, Gordon Gray may seem like an unlikely supporter of particle astrophysics research.

But cosmic matters have always been important to Mr. Gray. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�When I was young I imagined myself as an astronomer, and I카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve always been interested in the universe,카지노 게임 컬렉션� he says.

Mr. Gray grew up in Copper Cliff, now a suburb of Sudbury, within jogging distance of the Creighton Mine, which now houses the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) where Dr. McDonald conducted much of his research.

It was through his involvement with a fundraising campaign at nearby Laurentian 카지노게임사이트 that Mr. Gray learned of the SNO and the partnership with Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s. Before long, he and Patricia, an accomplished sea plane pilot and master gardener, had added particle astrophysics to a long list of diverse interests.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�We thought that if we sponsored a chair, the occupant would be able to devote all of his time to the SNO project,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Mr. Gray says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�To think that we may have had a role in is almost beyond comprehension.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Watch for the feature article on Patricia and Gordon Gray in the upcoming Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Alumni Review this February.

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