Serge Haroche | |
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Born | |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École normale supérieure Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University (Ph.D.) |
Known for | Cavity quantum electrodynamics |
Awards | CNRS Gold medal (2009) Nobel Prize for Physics (2012) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University Yale University Collège de France |
Doctoral advisor | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
Website | www |
Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944)[1] 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.[2][3][4] 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.
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.[5]