Moshe Shapiro

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

Moshe Shapiro
Residence	Canada
Nationality	Israeli
Fields	Chemical physics
Institutions	University of British Columbia
Known for	The contributions in the fields of coherent control.
Notable 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.

Moshe Shapiro is a chemist and physicist at the University of British Columbia.

Current research

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

Awards and achievements

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

He is presently 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.

External links

• University of British Columbia Chemistry website
• University of British Columbia Physics website

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