Companion of the Order of Canada
- Awarded on: December 15, 1980
- Invested on: April 08, 1981
President of the National Research Council of Canada, the first lay president of UniversitÚ Laval and former president of the Royal Society of Canada. Physicist and educator whose research into atomic and molecular physics has played a major role in the advancement of science in Canada. (This is a promotion within the Order).