Serge Haroche's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

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Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J. The birth-card coordinate for September 11 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2012 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2012 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

The King of Clubs coordinate

Serge Haroche's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Serge Haroche. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Serge Haroche in the public record

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. In 1971 he defended his doctoral thesis in physics at the University of Paris VI: his research had been conducted under the direction of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Haroche was born in Casablanca to Albert Haroche (1920–1998), from a Moroccan Jewish family, and Valentine Haroche, born Roubleva (1921–1998), a teacher who was born in Odessa to a Jewish family of physicians who relocated to Morocco in the early 1920s. His family had mixed Sephardic and Ashkenazi origins. His father, a lawyer trained in Rabat, was one of seven children born to a family of teachers, Isaac and Esther Haroche, who worked at the École de l’Alliance israélite (AIU). Both paternal grandparents of Serge Haroche had been AIU students in their respective hometowns of Marrakesh and Tétouan (the school which Esther Azerad attended in Tétouan had been founded in 1862; it was the first school of the AIU network).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Serge Haroche (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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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.

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Also on the record

1. Haroche's family left Morocco in 1956 at the end of the French protectorate treaty, and settled in France.
2. Haroche worked in the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) as a research scientist from 1967 to 1975 at the French UMR Kastler–Brossel Laboratory, and spent a year (1972–1973) as a visiting post-doc in Stanford University, in Arthur Leonard Schawlow's team.
3. In 1975 he moved to a professor position at Paris VI University.
4. At the same time he taught in other institutions, in particular at the École polytechnique (1973–1984), MIT (1980), Harvard University (1981), Yale University (1984–1993) and Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (2000).

Other laureates with this card

• A. Michael Spence — 2001 Economic Sciences
• Albert Camus — 1957 Literature
• Barry C. Barish — 2017 Physics
• Bertram N. Brockhouse — 1994 Physics
• Bruce Merrifield — 1984 Chemistry
• Carl Cori — 1947 Physiology or Medicine
• Cecil Powell — 1950 Physics
• Daniel Bovet — 1957 Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Fischer — 1902 Chemistry
• Eric Kandel — 2000 Physiology or Medicine
• François Jacob — 1965 Physiology or Medicine
• Frederick Sanger — 1958 Chemistry; 1980 Chemistry
• 28 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Serge Haroche's birth card?

The King of Clubs. September 11 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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