NOBEL PRIZE

FRENCH JEW OF MOROCCAN ORIGIN SHARES THE NOBEL FOR PHYSICS……..

 

Do you think Morocco will claim him as one of their own?

Eh….you can answer that one.

French Jew shares coveted Nobel Prize in Physics

By JTA
10/09/2012 16:34

Serge Haroche, of Moroccan origin, wins prize with American David Wineland for groundbreaking advances in quantum systems.

Nobel prize winners: Haroche (left,) Wineland

Serge Haroche, a French-Jewish physicist, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with David Wineland from the United States.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 went to the scientists “for groundbreaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems,” the website of the Nobel Prize said.

According to the BBC, the pair developed solutions to pick, manipulate and measure photons and ions individually, allowing an insight into a microscopic world that was once just the province of scientific theory.

Haroche, who was born 68 years ago in Casablanca, Morocco, told Le Figaro that he “had a hard time understanding” the news when a representative of the Nobel Prize committee called him on his cellular phone to say he had won what is considered the highest form of recognition of scientific excellence.

Haroche, of Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, will share a $1.2 million grant from the Nobel Prize Committee with Wineland, a researcher at the Maryland-based National Institute of Standards and Technology and at the University of Colorado.

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