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Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate · France · Scientists · Born 1944 · age 82

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Serge Haroche 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.

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2017Grand Officer of the Legion of HonourAward2014Dirac Medal for the Advancement of PhysicsAward2013Silver Medal of the President of the SenateAward2012Nobel Prize in PhysicsAward2010Herbert Walther PrizeAward2009CNRS Gold medalAward2007Charles Hard Townes AwardAward1993Albert A. Michelson MedalAward1991Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-PrizeAward1988Einstein Prize for Laser ScienceAward1983Jean-Ricard PrizeAward1944Born11 September 1944

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Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour2017
Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics2014
Silver Medal of the President of the Senate2013
Nobel Prize in Physics2012
Herbert Walther Prize2010
CNRS Gold medal2009
Charles Hard Townes Award2007
Albert A. Michelson Medal1993
Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize1991
Einstein Prize for Laser Science1988
Jean-Ricard Prize1983
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Serge Haroche 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.

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Scientists
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Scientist
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Born 1944 · age 82

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