SCS 2023 St Albert Award Announcement SD 480p

The 2023 St. Albert Award was given to Anthony Ichiro Sanda in recognition of his witness to the harmony of faith and science given by his writing and public speaking on the relation of science and faith, his life of service to the Church, and his distinguished achievements in scientific research.

Prof. Sanda has won numerous scientific awards in the U.S. and Japan for his contributions to fundamental physics. He has written and spoken extensively in his native country of Japan on the relation of science and the Catholic faith, including writing a book in Japanese entitled “As a Scientist, Why Do I Believe in God?” He was ordained as a permanent deacon at Diocese of Nagoya in May 2006, and was transferred to the Archdiocese of Tokyo in April 2011.

Prof. Sanda received his B.S. in Physics from University of Illinois in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1969. He did research at Columbia University and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory before taking a faculty position at Rockefeller University. In 1992, he became Professor of Physics at Nagoya University. Since 2006 he has been Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University and a Professor at Kanagawa University. Since 2007 he has also been a Program Officer of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo.

Prof. Sanda is well known in the field of theoretical particle physics for several major achievements. One was the development, in a paper with Kazuo Fujikawa and Benjamin W. Lee, of a powerful and widely used technique for doing calculations in quantum field theories that have spontaneously broken gauge symmetry, an important type of theory that includes the part of the Standard Model of Particle Physics that describes the electroweak force. Even more influential was his theoretical work, with Ikaros Bigi and others, that showed how the measurement of the properties of B mesons could be a powerful tool in understanding how CP symmetry (a symmetry that relates particles and antiparticles) is violated in nature. This work motivated and guided a large area of experimental particle physics research at major laboratories throughout the world. For this work, Prof. Sanda and Prof. Bigi received the 2004 Sakurai Prize, the highest award given by the American Physical Society for work in theoretical particle physics. He has also received numerous awards in Japan, including the Inoue Prize for Science in 1993, the Nishina Memorial Prize in 1997, the Chunichi Shimbun Prize in 2002, the Shuji Orito Prize in 2015, and two medals awarded by the Emperor of Japan: the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2002, and Order of the Sacred Treasure in 2017.

What is most important to Prof. Sanda, however, is his service to the Church, both as a deacon and through his writings and other educational work on the relationship between science and faith.

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