2002 CAP MEDAL WINNERS:

	The CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics is awarded to: Allan I. Carswell, Optech Inc, for his entrepreneurial and research achievements in lidar applications. He is a model for Canadian researchers.
	The CAP/CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics is awarded to: Dr. Pavel Winternitz, University of Montreal
	The CAP/DCMMP Brockhouse Medal (for Outstanding Experimental or Theoretical Contributions to Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) is awarded to: Pawel Hawrylak, National Research Council, for theoretical studies of electronic states in quantum dots, and their manifestation in experiment and nano-scale devices.
	The CAP Medal for Excellence in Teaching is awarded to: Dr. Jaymie Matthews, University of British Columbia, for his being an exceptional teacher with a driving passion to educate people at all levels. Not only has he inspired his students with his clarity of teaching and his enthusiasm, but he has also displayed an extraordinary skill in bringing the excitement of astrophysics and astronomy to the general public.
	The CAP-COMP Peter Kirkby Memorial Medal for Outstanding Service to Canadian Physics is awarded to: John R. (Jack) Cunningham, Camrose, Alberta, for his distinguished contributions to medical physics and society, not only in Canada but in the world. He is a modest scientist of great stature who, among many other things, helped found the Canadian Organization of Medical Physics and the College of Physicists in Medicine.
	The CAP Herzberg Medal (for outstanding achievement by a physicist aged 40 or less) is awarded to: Eric Hessels, York University, for significant high precision measurements on light atoms. His experiments have provided new tests of quantum electrodynamics, and improved accuracy for the fine structure constant from the fine structure of helium. His measurements on the Rydberg states of helium and lithium provide the first tests of retardation effects in long-range interactions.
	The CAP Medal for Achievement in Physics is awarded to: Alan Astbury, University of Victoria/TRIUMF, for his scientific leadership in particle physics in Canada, and for his role in the discovery of the weak vector bosons (W+-). After leading the Definition Study for KAON, as Director of TRIUMF he reoriented its mission to become the staging ground for Canadian participation in international experiments, while overseeing the development of the world-leading radioactive beam facility ISAC.

The winner of the 2002 CAP/CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics will be announced later.

All recipients have been invited to give a plenary lecture during the 2002 CAP Congress at the Quebec Convention Center, Quebec City from June 2-5. The medals will be awarded during the Congress banquet to be held on 2002 June 4th.