Albéric Boivin

[1] He subsequently earned his master's degree there in 1949,[2] and became a full professor in 1955.

[2] Boivin's work in optics drew other researchers to him, and in the 1960s he established the Laboratoire d'Optique et Hyperfrequences, which subsequently became the Laboratoire de Recherches en Optique et Laser, and later the Centre d'Optique, Photonique et Laser;[1] this has been cited as a "determining factor" in the Canadian government's decision to establish the Institut National d'Optique in Quebec City.

[1] He also launched Université Laval's astrophysics program,[1] and was a founding member of the Canadian Astronomical Society.

[3] His students included Roger A. Lessard [fr],[4] and he collaborated with Emil Wolf on "a paper on the field structure about the focus of a wide-aperture aplanatic system".

[1] Boivin was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1962,[5] and won the 1967 Léo-Pariseau Prize.