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. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012, announced October 9, 2012. Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland, “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”. Serge Haroche: born 1944, Casablanca, Morocco. David J. Wineland: born 1944, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).