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deep in the earth. SNOLAB is a clean facility, which means that a tremendous amount of tedious effort to keep clean was necessary in order to complete the team’s research that led to the neutrino discovery.Would you say that the Nobel Prize has been your biggest career ac- complishment?When we published our paper in 2002, this was the rst piece of physics beyond the standard model that de ni- tively showed that neutrinos have mass, and it is the most signi cant piece of sci- ence that I accomplished (together with a very large collaboration of people). So I would say that that was the most ex- citing event in my career. The science is the most exciting thing.niversity.February/March, 2016 | Canadian Industry Online | 9