Paul Bruce Corkum, University of Ottawa
Physics
Professor
Ottawa, Ontario
pcorkum@uottawa.ca
Office:
(613) 562-5800 ext. 6550
(613) 993-7390
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Paul Corkum started his career as a theoretical physicist but changed to experiment when he arrived as a Post doctoral Fellow at NRC in 1973. He could make the change because as a grad student, he learned to repair his car. When asked during an interview at NRC "what makes you think you can becom...
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Bio/Research
Paul Corkum started his career as a theoretical physicist but changed to experiment when he arrived as a Post doctoral Fellow at NRC in 1973. He could make the change because as a grad student, he learned to repair his car. When asked during an interview at NRC "what makes you think you can become an experimenatlist?" he could reply "it's no problem, I can take the engine of a car completely apart repair it and put it back together so it will work." So they hired him.
At NRC he concentrated first on laser physics but with the revolution in laser technology, intense laser pulses are now being applied in every discipline. Dr. Corkum anticipated their impact. He is best known for introducing many of the concepts in strong field atomic and molecular science.
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At NRC he concentrated first on laser physics but with the revolution in laser technology, intense laser pulses are now being applied in every discipline. Dr. Corkum anticipated their impact. He is best known for introducing many of the concepts in strong field atomic and molecular science.
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