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Paul Corkum

1943 - Today

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Paul Bruce Corkum (born October 30, 1943) is a Canadian physicist specializing in attosecond physics and laser science. He holds a joint University of Ottawa–NRC chair in attosecond photonics. He also holds academic positions at Texas A&M University and the University of New Mexico. Corkum is both a theorist and an experimentalist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Corkum is the 771st most popular physicist (down from 741st in 2019), the 605th most popular biography from Canada (down from 491st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Canadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Paul Corkum ranks 771 out of 851. Before him are Leonid Sedov, Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, Robert Marshak, Ernst Stueckelberg, Gersh Budker, and Ronald Drever. After him are Juan Martín Maldacena, Samuel King Allison, C. R. Hagen, Julian Barbour, Miguel Alcubierre, and Emil Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Paul Corkum ranks 624. Before him are Pelle Svensson, Norman Thagard, John Hunter, Martha Cooper, Herman Rouwé, and Vladimir Fedotov. After him are Hugh Wilson, Jonathan Lynn, Edmund Bruggmann, Tony Esposito, Sigitas Geda, and Roy Estrada.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Paul Corkum ranks 605 out of 1,622. Before him are Maurice Prendergast (1858), Owen Hargreaves (1981), Claude Vivier (1948), Pablo Schreiber (1978), Paul Churchland (1942), and Nicole Appleton (1974). After him are Roy Dupuis (1963), Scotty Bowman (1933), Elmer Clifton (1890), Yvonne Brill (1924), Tom Thomson (1877), and Robert Lepage (1957).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Paul Corkum ranks 9. Before him are Willard Boyle (1924), Jim Peebles (1935), Louis Slotin (1910), Donna Strickland (1959), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), and Harriet Brooks (1876). After him are Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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