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Moshe Shapiro

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Moshe Shapiro
BornOctober 1944
Died3 December 2013
Known forContributions in the field of coherent control
Awards
  • Willis Lamb Award in Quantum Optics (2007)
  • Fellow American Physical Society (2004)
  • Fellow UK Institute of Physics (2004)
  • Israel Chemical Society Award (2001)
  • Michael Landau Award (1999)
  • Weizmann Prize of the city of Tel Aviv (1999)
  • Kolthoff Prize of the Technion (1998)
  • Somekh Zacks and Yeroslawsky awards of the Weizmann Institute
Scientific career
FieldsChemical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia

Moshe Shapiro (October 1944 – 3 December 2013) was a chemist and physicist at the University of British Columbia.

Research

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Shapiro's research focused on coherent control, laser catalysis, quantum computing, transition state spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and other areas.[1]

Awards and achievements

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Shapiro published more than 300 papers, and the book Principles of the Quantum Control of Molecular Processes with P. Brumer. He won a variety of prizes for his research.[1]

He was the Canada Research Chair Professor in Quantum Control. From 1993 to 2002, he was the Jacques Mimran Professor of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "The Department Mourns the Sudden Passing of Our Colleague Moshe Shapiro" (Press release). Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia. 2013.
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