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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997

"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
Steven Chu Claude Cohen-Tannoudji William D. Phillips
Steven Chu Claude Cohen-Tannoudji William D. Phillips
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
USA France USA
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure
Paris, France
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD, USA
b. 1948 b. 1933
(in Constantine, Algeria)
b. 1948
 
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