Sudbury gets a nat’l shout-out from the Governor General

Governor General David Johnston came out today … as someone who was born in Copper Cliff, that is.

The GG wrote an op-ed that was published by The Globe and Mail today highlighting Sudbury’s contributions to the world of science.

First, he dispelled the myth that NASA astronauts visited Sudbury because the place resembled the moon.

“Specifically, they were studying the Sudbury basin, a two-billion-year-old meteor impact similar to impacts found on the lunar surface,” Johnston wrote. “Those astronauts weren’t learning how to moonwalk in Sudbury, they were learning about moon rock.”

He also highlighted the contributions of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) to the world of science. Recently,  SNO earned the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and last year, SNO was in the news when Dr. Arthur McDonald accepted a Nobel Prize for neutrino research conducted at the lab two kilometres below the ground at Creighton Mine.

Check out Johnston’s op-ed here. 

And hurray for science!