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French physicist, Nobel laureate

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Serge Haroche is a French physicist affiliated with the College de France. He was born on September 11, 1944. His academic work includes publications titled *La Lumière révélée*, *Laser spectroscopy*, *Atomic Physics 11*, and *Exploring the quantum*. Haroche has received a Nobel Prize and is recognized in the Nobel Physics collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • La Lumière révélée
  • Laser spectroscopy
  • Atomic Physics 11
  • Exploring the quantum
  • Atomic Physics 11

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
FR
Active from
1975-11-07

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Listeners
5
Total plays
53

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2012

    for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

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C.V. de Serge Haroche - Membre de l'Acad�mie des sciences

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Principaux ouvrages S. HAROCHE Physique Quantique Ed. Fayard (2004) S. HAROCHE, J-M. RAIMOND Exploring the quantum: atoms, cavities and photons Ed. Oxford University Press (2006)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Serge
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Casablanca
Occupation
researcher
Position held
director
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Field of work
Rydberg atom
Image
Serge Haroche at Techfest, IIT Bombay.jpg
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Serge Haroche
date of birth
1944-09-11
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WikiProject Mathematics
Erdős number
4
affiliation string
College de France
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Serge Haroche ( French pronunciation: [sɛʁʒ aʁɔʃ]; born 11 September 1944) is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems", a study of the particle of light, the photon. This and his other works developed laser spectroscopy. Since 2001, Haroche is a professor at the Collège de France and holds the chair of quantum physics and in 2022 he had the Fermi Chair of Physics at University of Rome La Sapienza.

In 1971 he defended his doctoral thesis in physics at the University of Paris VI: his research had been conducted under the direction of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.

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