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. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an active researcher, working at the École normale supérieure (Paris).