Serge Haroche

Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944 in Casablanca) is a French physicist. Since 2001 Haroche has been a Professor at the Collège de France and holds the Chair of Quantum Physics.

Biography

Serge Haroche currently lives in Paris, is married and has two children. Haroche is member of the French Physical Society, the European Physical society and a fellow and member of the American Physical Society.

Research fields

Haroche is principally known for proving quantum decoherence by experimental observation, while working with colleagues at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1996.

Selected publications

• Exploring the Quantum - Atoms, Cavities and Photons (with Jean-Michel Raimond) Oxford University Press, September 2006, ISBN 9780198509141

Awards

• 1992 The Humboldt Prize
• 1993 Albert A. Michelson Medal by the Franklin Institute
• 2007 by the OSA
• 2009 CNRS Gold medal

References

• Serge Haroche and Jean-Michel Raimond, (2006). Exploring the Quantum: Atoms, Cavities, and Photons, Oxford University Press ISBN 0198509146

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