The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Morocco
This page contains a list of the greatest Moroccan Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 717 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Morocco. This makes Morocco the birth place of the 46th most number of Physicists behind Bulgaria and Serbia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moroccan Physicists of all time. This list of famous Moroccan Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Serge Haroche (1944 - )
With an HPI of 60.81, Serge Haroche is the most famous Moroccan Physicist. His biography has been translated into 58 different languages on wikipedia.
Serge Haroche (born 11 September 1944) 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. 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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as physicists born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living physicists include Serge Haroche.
