Serge Haroche
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Serge Haroche is a French physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum optics and cavity quantum electrodynamics.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Serge Haroche canonical | 10 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Serge Haroche Context triple: [École Polytechnique, hasAlumnus, Serge Haroche]
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Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect is a French physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments on quantum entanglement that confirmed key predictions of quantum mechanics and contributed to his sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
Eric A. Cornell
Eric A. Cornell is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in a dilute gas of alkali atoms.
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C.
Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as the “father of femtochemistry” for his pioneering work using ultrafast lasers to observe chemical reactions in real time.
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D.
Donna Strickland
Donna Strickland is a Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for her pioneering work in laser physics, particularly the development of chirped pulse amplification.
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E.
John Polanyi
John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Serge Haroche Target entity description: Serge Haroche is a French physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum optics and cavity quantum electrodynamics.
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A.
Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect is a French physicist renowned for his groundbreaking experiments on quantum entanglement that confirmed key predictions of quantum mechanics and contributed to his sharing the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
Eric A. Cornell
Eric A. Cornell is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in a dilute gas of alkali atoms.
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C.
Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as the “father of femtochemistry” for his pioneering work using ultrafast lasers to observe chemical reactions in real time.
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D.
Donna Strickland
Donna Strickland is a Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for her pioneering work in laser physics, particularly the development of chirped pulse amplification.
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E.
John Polanyi
John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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human ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
ⓘ
linked to:
Université Paris Cité
École normale supérieure ⓘ
linked to:
École Normale (Paris)
|
| awardReceived |
Albert A. Michelson Medal
ⓘ
CNRS Gold Medal ⓘ Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
French Protectorate in Morocco
ⓘ
linked to:
French Morocco
|
| dateOfBirth | 1944-09-11 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ⓘ |
| familyName | Haroche ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
atomic physics
ⓘ
cavity quantum electrodynamics ⓘ physics ⓘ quantum optics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Serge ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
quantum information science
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quantum mechanics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments
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control of individual quantum systems ⓘ pioneering work in quantum optics ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Académie des sciences
ⓘ
linked to:
Académie des Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ Brazilian Academy of Sciences ⓘ French Academy of Sciences ⓘ
linked to:
Académie des Sciences
Pontifical Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| name | Serge Haroche ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeCategory | Physics ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeMotivation | for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems ⓘ |
| NobelPrizeYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Jean-Michel Raimond
ⓘ
Michel Brune ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Casablanca ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
administrator of Collège de France
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chair of quantum physics at Collège de France ⓘ professor at Collège de France ⓘ professor at École normale supérieure ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
Rydberg atoms
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decoherence ⓘ interaction of light and matter ⓘ microwave cavities ⓘ quantum measurement ⓘ |
| sharedNobelPrizeWith | David J. Wineland ⓘ |
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