Theodor W. Hänsch

Theodor W. Hänsch, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1941-10-30 in Heidelberg, Germany

Gender: male

Field: German physicist (born 1941)

Biography

Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005

Awarded on: 2005-10-04

"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"

Affiliations:

  • Max Planck Institute of Quantum OpticsGarching, Germany
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenMunich, Germany