The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997
Awarded on: 1997-10-15
"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
Affiliations:
- Collège de France – Paris, France
- École Normale Supérieure – Paris, France
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Born: 1933-04-01 in Constantine, French Algeria (now Algeria)
Gender: male
Field: French physicist (born 1933)
Biography
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist and researcher at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He is known for his experiments in laser cooling. He was the first to show that it is possible to cool far beyond the limit expected by sub-Doppler cooling, below the recoil temperature.