--- title: "4 Serge Haroche Quotes - Famous Physicist (La luz revelada)" description: "Serge Haroche is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. Wineland for \"ground-breaking experimental me..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-serge-haroche-84051.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Serge Haroche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-serge-haroche-84051.jpg) # Serge Haroche (1944) Physicist **4** quotes in **85** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Serge Haroche is a physicist, best known for *La luz revelada*. ## Quick Facts About Serge Haroche Born September 11, 1944 Profession Physicist Notable works La luz revelada ## About Serge Haroche 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. This and his other works developed laser spectroscopy. Since 2001, Haroche is a professor at the Collège de France and holds the chair of quantum physics and in 2022 he had the Fermi Chair of Physics at University of Rome La Sapienza. ## Quotes by Serge Haroche > [Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/serge-haroche/most-technological-advances-in-our-life-now-come-from-serendipitous/) [Serge Haroche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/serge-haroche/) [Clock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clock/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c65/serge-haroche-73642_clock_most-technological-advances-in-our-life_259970.jpg) > [We thought it would be nice to have atoms interact in such a gentle way with the photons that they would just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/serge-haroche/we-thought-it-would-be-nice-to-have-atoms-interact-in-such-a-gentle/) [Serge Haroche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/serge-haroche/) [Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/914/serge-haroche-73642_able_we-thought-it-would-be-nice-to-have-atom_1151085.jpg) > [It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/serge-haroche/it-is-hard-to-rationalise-or-explain-why-you-love-what-you-love-but-i/) [Serge Haroche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/serge-haroche/) [Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/209/serge-haroche-73642_always_it-is-hard-to-rationalise-or-explain-why_1211574.jpg) > [It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/serge-haroche/it-is-important-to-fund-young-researchers-who-want-to-do-curiosity/) [Serge Haroche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/serge-haroche/) [About](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/about/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f7/serge-haroche-73642_about_it-is-important-to-fund-young-researcher_2816195.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/serge-haroche/#itemlist", "name": "Serge Haroche Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. 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