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