CAP Medals

The CAP Medals are a set of recognitions awarded by the Canadian Association of Physicists to honour excellence in physics research, scholarship, innovation and teaching. Nominations require a nomination form, nominator's supporting letter, a CV, referee letters and short publication and citation texts for press release. Selected recipients are normally presented with their medal at the CAP Annual Congress Recognition Dinner.

Award medal and public recognition; recipients are normally presented with their medal at the CAP Annual Congress Recognition Dinner; short publication statement and citation used in CAP announcements.

Nominators and nominees must be regular members of the CAP or one of the CAP Council-approved list of Canadian professional science societies. The nominee must have spent the major part of their working career in Canada or have made a major contribution to physics after returning to a permanent position in Canada. Self-nominations are accepted. Nominees for the Undergraduate Teaching medal may be members in the High School/CEGEP/College Teacher category.

Nominations must be submitted via CAP's online nomination submission process; supporting documents in PDF (nomination letter, CV, up to three referee letters, publication and citation texts). Nominations are confidential and remain valid for three nomination cycles; nominators must verify packages annually while valid.