Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 4, 1995
• Invested on: November 16, 1995

He has an international reputation for his work in the field of theoretical chemistry and spectroscopy and its impact on environmental analytical chemistry, biochemistry and the molecular biology of vision. During his long career at the Université de Montréal, he produced a large body of scientific work that has led to a number of new technological advances in medicine.