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He is a member of the Royal Societies of London In 2014, Corkum was awarded the Optical Paul Corkum and of Canada and also a foreign member of the Society of America’s Charles Ives Award (the US National Academy of Science, the Austrian society’s highest award). In 2015, he shared the Paul Corkum (OC, FRS, FRSC, FRPS) graduated Academy of Science, and the Russian Academy of Russian Academy of Sciences Lomonosov Gold from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, in 1972 Sciences. Medal for outstanding achievements in the with a Ph. D. in theoretical physics. natural sciences & humanities (the Academy’s highest award) and was named a Thomson In 1973 he joined the staff of the National Awards and Honors Reuters Citation Laureate, for researchers Research Council of Canada where he built one whose work is -- “of Nobel class” and likely to of the world’s most famous groups working on Among his awards are the Canadian Association earn the Nobel someday. the interaction of very short light pulses with of Physicists’ Gold Medal for Lifetime matter. Corkum is best known for introducing Achievement in Physics (1996); the Royal Society In 2017, Corkum received the Royal Medal, for many of the concepts of how intense light pulses of Canada’s Tory Award (2003); the Optical his major contributions to laser physics and the interact with atoms, molecules and solids, and Society’s Charles H. Townes Award (2005); the development of the field of attosecond science, then confirming the concepts experimentally. He IEEE’s Quantum Electronics Award (2005); the as well as the National Research Council of was the first to show how to make and measure American Physical Societies’ Schawlow Prize Canada’s Schneider Medal, their highest an attosecond pulse and how this new (2006) and the ACS Zewail Award (2010). distinction bestowed upon employees. Corkum technology could be used to image atomic-scale was awarded both the SPIE Gold Medal, and structure. In 2013, Corkum received the Royal Photographic the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize from the Society’s Progress Medal (the society’s highest Institute of Physics, in 2018, and is a recipient Corkum holds a Canada Research Chair at the honour), as well as Israel’s Harvey Prize for of the 2019 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser University of Ottawa and directs the Joint Physical Sciences, and Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal Science and Quantum Optics. NRC/University of Ottawa Attosecond Science International Prize for Science (Physics). Laboratory.