Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

French physicist (born 1933)

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 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. Currently he is still an active researcher, working at the École normale supérieure.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

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  • Science is the future of mankind.
    • Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications. Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (September 15, 2008), at 1:52.
  • Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
    • Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications. Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (September 15, 2008), at 3:22.
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