Professor
Claude Nessim Cohen-Tannoudji
Collège de France
Physicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Physics
Elected
1992
International Honorary Member
Research focuses on radiation-matter interactions. He has investigated several physical mechanisms allowing one to manipulate atoms with laser light. He shared the 1997 Physics Nobel Prize with Steven Chu and William Phillips for the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
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