Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: April 13, 1994
• Invested on: October 19, 1994

In the course of a distinguished career, he contributed to the general development of physics in Canada and, in particular, at the University of British Columbia. Twenty-five years after he co-authored an historic paper on the gravitational collapse of stars, the theoretical prediction it contained was verified by the discovery of pulsars, one of the great astrophysical discoveries of this century.