The Nobel Prize in Physics 1966
Awarded on: 1966-11-03
"for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms"
Affiliations:
- École Normale Supérieure – Paris, France
Alfred Kastler
Born: 1902-05-03 in Guebwiller, Germany (now France)
Gender: male
Field: German-born French physicist (1902–1984)
Biography
Alfred Kastler was a German-born French physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He is known for the development of optical pumping.