Prizes
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji andWilliam D. Phillips for their developments of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. This year’s Nobel laureates in physics have developed methods of cooling and trapping atoms by using laser…
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Press release
Press release
English 15 October 1997 has decided to award the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and Dr. William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, for development of methods to…
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