Serge Haroche
b. 1944
French physicist, Nobel laureate
- Born
- 11 Sept 1944 · Casablanca
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 11 Sept 1944BornBorn in Casablanca
- 1983AwardJean-Ricard Prize
- 1988AwardEinstein Prize for Laser Science
- 1991AwardGay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize
- 1993AwardAlbert A. Michelson Medal
- 1994 – 2000RoleDirector
- 2007AwardCharles Hard Townes Award
- 2009AwardCNRS Gold medal
- 2010AwardHerbert Walther Prize
- 2012 – 2015RoleDirector of the Collège de France
- 2012AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 2013AwardSilver Medal of the President of the Senate
- 2014AwardDirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
- 2026AwardGrand Cross of the Legion of Honour
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1944 – today).
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
- 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
- 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
- 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
- 19841984 Summer Olympics
- 1985Schengen Agreement
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 19901990 FIFA World Cup
- 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 19941994 FIFA World Cup
- 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
- 19981998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
- 2003 – 2011Iraq War
- 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
- 20062006 FIFA World Cup
- 20082008 Summer Olympics
- 2008Russo-Georgian War
- 20102010 Haiti earthquake
- 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
Biography
Serge Haroche (French pronunciation: [sɛʁʒ aʁɔʃ]; 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.
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