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8 Presented by David J. Allen Senior Vice President and General Manager Spectra-Physics Business Unit MKS Instruments, Inc. and Mahu Zewail-Foote Professor of Chemistry Southwestern University Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology Sponsored by the Ahmed Zewail Endowment Fund established by the Newport Corporation Olga Smirnova Max-Born Institute & Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany For pioneering contributions in attosecond strong-field physics, including atto- second high harmonic spectroscopy of electron dynamics and the discovery of electron spin polarization during optical tunneling.