Serge Haroche
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Serge Haroche in Stockholm (2012)
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| Born |
11 September 1944 Casablanca, Morocco (then a French protectorate) |
| Nationality | French |
| Institutions |
Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University Yale University Collège de France |
| Alma mater |
École normale supérieure Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University (Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
| Notable awards |
CNRS Gold medal (2009) Nobel Prize for Physics (2012) |
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Website www |
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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. In 1971 he defended his doctoral thesis in physics at the University of Paris VI, his research has been conducted under the direction of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
Serge Haroche was born in Casablanca, Morocco, to Albert Haroche (1920–1998) and Valentine Haroche, née Roubleva (1921–1998) a teacher who was born in Odessa to a Jewish family that relocated to Paris in the early 1920s. His father, a lawyer, comes from a family originally from Marrakech (Isaac and Esther Haroche), who settled in Casablanca to work as teachers at the École de l’Alliance israélite.
Haroche left Morocco and settled in France in 1956, at the end of the French protectorate treaty.
He currently lives in Paris; he is married to the sociologist Claudine Haroche (née Zeligson), also descending from the Russian Jewish émigrés family, with two children (aged 40 and 43). He is the uncle of French singer–songwriter and actor Raphaël Haroche (known as Raphaël, his stage name).
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