Serge Haroche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Serge Haroche

French physicist

Date of Birth: 11-Sep-1944

Place of Birth: Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

Profession: physicist, professeur des universités

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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.