Moshe Shapiro

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

This article is about the scientist. For the rabbi, see Moshe Shmuel Shapiro.
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

Research

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

Awards and achievements

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. His paper J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 175303 (9pp)

doi:10.1088/1751-8113/41/17/175303 is notable in providing the origin of quantum mechanics in simple space-time symmetries.

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.

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