Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 24, 2012
• Invested on: November 23, 2012

Gordon Semenoff is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist. A professor at the University of British Columbia, he investigates nature at its most fundamental level and has made seminal contributions to highly technical fields, including condensed matter physics, string theory and quantum field theory. He has garnered global recognition in the scientific community for his brilliant theorizing on the properties of graphene, a material with the potential to revolutionize electronics.