CLAUDE COHEN-TANNOUDJI

1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics

for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.

• Born: 1933
• Place of birth: Constantine, Algeria
• Education: Ph.D.'62 from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France
• Residence: Paris, France
• Affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique de Icole Normale Supirieure, Paris, France

• Other books by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
• Other books on lasers are available here for browsing

• Prize co-recipient: Steven Chu
• Prize co-recipient: William D. Phillips
• Official award announcement and brief background
• Additional background on the discovery

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• CNN coverage of the 1997 Physics Nobel Prize
• MSNBC's coverage of the Prize
• Die Nobelpreise 1997 in deutscher Sprache (submitted by Spektrum der Wissenschaft)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji receives the 1996 CNRS Gold Medal
• Atom cooling and trapping
• Atom Optics, Cooling, and Trapping
• Links to Interesting Activites in the Field of Laser, Quantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics
• Atoms in Electromagnetic Fields - Works by C Cohen-Tannoudji
• Autobiography of Claude N. Cohen-Tannoudji (submitted by Nikolai N. Kostyukovich)
• A short biography of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (submitted by Nikolai N. Kostyukovich)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – Autobiography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Other Resources (submitted by Davis)
• Claude Cohen Tannoudji Books (submitted by Davis)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Other Resources (submitted by Jackson)
• French physicist Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (submitted by )
• development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. (submitted by Valka)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)

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