Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudjiis a French physicist and Nobel Laureate. 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 in Paris...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth1 April 1933
CountryFrance
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji quotes about
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Science is the future of mankind.
algeria century family originally settled spain
I was born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition.