Moshe Shapiro Explained

Moshe Shapiro
Birth Date:October 1944
Death Date:3 December 2013
Field:Chemical physics
Work Institution:University of British Columbia
Known For:Contributions in the field of coherent control
Prizes:
  • 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)

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

Research

Shapiro's research focused on coherent control, laser catalysis, quantum computing, transition state spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and other areas.Shapiro published two fundamental papers in which he derives quantum mechanics from observed symmetries in the universe: "Derivation of the coordinate-momentum commutation relations from canonical invariance" PHYSICAL REVIEW A 74, 042104 (2006), and "Derivation of the relativistic 'proper time' quantum evolution equations from canonical invariance", J. Phys. A. Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 175303.[1]

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.

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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Notes and References

  1. The Department Mourns the Sudden Passing of Our Colleague Moshe Shapiro . Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia . 2013 .