Serge Haroche

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

Contents 1 Biography 2 Research fields 3 Selected publications 4 Awards

[edit] 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.

[edit] Research fields

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

[edit] Selected publications

• Exploring the Quantum - Atoms, Cavities and Photons (with Jean-Michel Raimond) Oxford University Press, September 2006, ISBN13: 9780198509141

[edit] Awards

• 1992 The Humboldt Prize