biography
| name: |
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude
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pronunciation:
[kohĩ tanoojee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1933– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Constantine, NE Algeria. He graduated in 1962 from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, where he went on to work. In 1997 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his contribution to the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. |
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