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Recent News from CAP

  • On May 23rd, CAP's 2012 Congress Banquet speaker, physicist Ted Hsu, MP, is holding a Facebook Town Hall with Canadian researchers on basic research funding
    May 18, 2012
  • CAP launches survey to obtain feedback from members on the changes at NSERC (Deadline May 25, 2012)
    May 15, 2012
  • Inaugural Boris P. Stoicheff Memorial Graduate Scholarship awarded to Wilson Brenna from the University of Waterloo
    May 8, 2012
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Latest CAP News Bulletin
February 14, 2012 - Vol. 11 No. 3

History

Please find below two articles published in the CAP's Physics in Canada the history of the CAP.

A Brief History of the Canadian Association of Physicists, by Donald D. Betts (March/April 2000)

The Evolution of CAP Activities, by Francine M. Ford (March/April 2000)

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