Canadian physicist. Mr. McDonald was born on Aug.29, 1943 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. He graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Physics in 1964 and M.Sc. degree in Physics in 1965 from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. He then obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1969 from the California Institute of Technology. He is currently the University Research Chair at Queens University and a board member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.