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Serge Haroche

Scientist · born September 11, 1944

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Serge Haroche 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.

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  1. ~68Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2012

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