Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He is known for his experiments in laser cooling. He was the first to show that it is possible to cool far beyond the limit expected by sub-Doppler cooling, below the recoil temperature.
Background
- Born in
- Constantine
- Educated at
- École Normale SupérieureUniversity of ParisLes Houches School of PhysicsScience Faculty of ParisLycée Émir Abdelkader
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Prix Ampère🏆 Charles Hard Townes Award🏆 Three Physicists Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Alfred Kastler
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Serge Haroche📖 Jean Dalibard
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1933
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