Moshe Shapiro

Moshe Shapiro
Moshe Shapiro
Born	October 1944
Died	3 December 2013
Known for	Contributions 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
Fields	Chemical physics
Institutions	University of British Columbia

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

Research edit

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

Awards and achievements edit

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 edit

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

External links edit

[UBC2013-1] "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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