Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966 “for the discovery and development of optical methods for the study of hertzian resonances in atoms.”
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 “for the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.”
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Serge Haroche
Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012 “for revolutionary experimental methods that enabled the measurement and manipulation of individual quantum systems.”
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