Nigel Lockyer (BSc '75) enjoyed his summer job at Ontario's ministry of industry and tourism when he was a student in York's Faculty of Science and Engineering - in fact, he was targeted by his bosses for a career as a senior provincial bureaucrat and considered pursuing an MBA after he graduated. Then Bill Frisken, now professor emeritus in York's Department of Physics and Astronomy and Lockyer's professor at the time, pulled him aside and suggested he become a particle physicist instead.
[This article was written by David Fuller, York University communications officer.]