Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | |
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Born | |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École normale supérieure (Paris) University of Paris |
Spouse |
Jacqueline Veyrat (m. 1958) |
Children | 3 |
Awards | Prix Paul Langevin (1963) Prix Jean Ricard (1971) Young Medal and Prize (1979) Lilienfeld Prize (1992) Matteucci Medal (1994) Harvey Prize (1996) Nobel Prize in Physics (1997) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | College de France University of Paris École normale supérieure (Paris) |
Doctoral advisor | Alfred Kastler |
Doctoral students | Serge Haroche Jean Dalibard |
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born 1 April 1933) 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. He is still an active researcher, working at the École normale supérieure (Paris).
He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1993.[2]