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Serge Haroche

born 1944

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Wikipedia Summary

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.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
September 11, 1944
Field and occupation
francúzsky fyzik, nobelista (1944 – )
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