Shaul Mukamel (born 11 December 1948) is a chemist and physicist, currently serving as a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Shaul Mukamel was born in Baghdad, Iraq on December 11, 1948.
Following graduation, Mukamel served as postdoc at MIT and the University of California, Berkeley.
[2][4][5] Mukamel is known for his work in the field of nonlinear optics, especially the time domain extensions which culminated in the book entitled Principles of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy (1995).
[citation needed] Mukamel has received prizes and distinctions including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award,[6] the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics,[7] and the Ahmed Zewail ACS Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology.