The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997

Steven Chu

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Prize share: 1/3

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

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Prize share: 1/3

William D. Phillips

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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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