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Serge Haroche

1944 - Today

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Serge Haroche (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Serge Haroche is the 260th most popular physicist (down from 234th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Morocco (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Moroccan Physicist.

Serge Haroche is most famous for his work in quantum physics. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he shared with David J. Wineland, for his work in the field of quantum electrodynamics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Serge Haroche ranks 260 out of 851. Before him are John L. Hall, John Archibald Wheeler, Igor Kurchatov, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Abdus Salam, and Chien-Shiung Wu. After him are Julian Schwinger, Toshihide Maskawa, Carlo Rubbia, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, Osborne Reynolds, and Anthony James Leggett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Serge Haroche ranks 70. Before him are Gérard Mourou, Mairead Maguire, Bernhard Schlink, John Rhys-Davies, Thein Sein, and Princess Benedikte of Denmark. After him are Antonio Damasio, Askar Akayev, Sylvie Vartan, Luigi Riva, Kunishige Kamamoto, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Serge Haroche ranks 14 out of 264. Before him are Mohammed V of Morocco (1909), Ismail Ibn Sharif (1646), Alain Badiou (1937), Dominique Mamberti (1952), Nathalie Delon (1941), and Fatema Mernissi (1940). After him are Ibn Tumart (1097), Ahmad al-Mansur (1549), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (1951), Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur (1160), Zeno of Verona (300), and Yusef of Morocco (1882).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Morocco

Among physicists born in Morocco, Serge Haroche ranks 1. 

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