The prize-winning student papers were:
| First Prize | Kevin Farrell Saint Francis Xavier | "Diffusion of molecules through a nonhomogeneous medium". |
| Second Prize | Allan MacIsaac Saint Fracis Xavier | "Chaos in a 'simple' system" |
| Third Prize | Stephen Arnold Dalhousie | "Numerical solutions to the time-dependent Schroedinger equation using a split-operator technique" |
| Honourable Mention | Merle Robertson Mount Allison | "A theoretical and observational determination of meteor wake" |
| Mark Rasolt Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN | "An examination of high-Tc superconductivity" & "High-Tc superconductivity: Theory and experiment" |
| Calvin Kalman Concordia University, Montreal | "Neutrons and protons: The atoms of the strong interaction" |
| Cy MacLatchy Acadia University, Wolfeville | "Tokamak de Varennes" |