<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">News Release | For Immediate Release | Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:30AM PDT</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Pierre Savard Awarded the 2015 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for Contributions to Subatomic Physics</b></div><div class=""><i class="">The Canadian Association of Physicists Reveals Medalists of 2015</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Ottawa, ON) – The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and TRIUMF are pleased to announce that Pierre Savard has been awarded the 2015 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal for Contributions to Subatomic Physics. A joint appointee at the University of Toronto and TRIUMF, Savard is being recognized for his contributions to particle physics and his leadership of an important analysis that established the identity of the recently discovered Higgs boson. Introduced in 2011, the Vogt Medal recognizes and encourages outstanding experimental or theoretical contributions to subatomic physics in Canada.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"It is a great honour to receive this award which I would like to share with the ATLAS-Canada researchers whose central contributions to the design 1nd construction of the experiment, and to the analysis of the data, helped make the discovery of the Higgs boson possible," says Professor Savard.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Modern physics experiments are very complex and sophisticated endeavors, requiring precise coordination of large scientific teams. Over 10,000 scientists and engineers work together at the greatest particle physics project to date – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. At the LHC’s ATLAS experiment, beams of particles are accelerated and collide at very high energies to probe the forces and symmetries that operate at subatomic scales. TRIUMF is an important part of this effort, hosting a large ATLAS-Canada team and the Canadian ATLAS Tier-1 Data Centre, which processes about five percent of the data generated by the ATLAS experiment.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pierre Savard is one of the world’s leading particle physicists and is respected for his insight into both the physics and the sophisticated instrumentation used in particle physics experiments. Savard held leadership positions in two international experiments: the Collider Detector (CDF) at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider and ATLAS at the LHC. His contributions to CDF included precision measurements of top quark properties and searches for exotic new particles. Savard co-led two important ATLAS analysis teams: the “Higgs boson” group and the aptly-named “exotics” group that searches for new physics at record-breaking energies. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, Savard personally led the effort to analyze one of its predicted decay modes. He was one of the ATLAS collaborators who prepared drafts of the Higgs boson discovery paper and subsequently led the analysis team that showed that the Higgs boson is a spin-zero particle, paving the way for the 2013 Nobel Prize for Peter Higgs and Francois Englert. For these efforts, Savard was awarded Radio-Canada’s 2012 Scientist of the Year.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Prof. Savard will be presented with his medal at the end of his plenary talk at the 2015 CAP Congress (hosted by the University of Alberta in Edmonton from June 15-19) and he will be recognized during the Congress Recognition Reception.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For more information on the CAP medals, please visit <a href="http://www.triumf.ca/CAP2015" class="">www.triumf.ca/CAP2015</a> or <a href="http://www.cap.ca" class="">www.cap.ca</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">###</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>