The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997
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Steven Chu
Prize share: 1/3
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Prize share: 1/3
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William D. Phillips
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 was awarded jointly to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
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