Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji was born on April 1, 1933. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (French pronunciation: [klod kɔɛn tanudʒi]; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist at the École normale supérieure in Paris. He is known for his experiments in laser cooling. He was the first to show that it is possible to cool far beyond the limit expected by sub-Doppler cooling, below the recoil temperature. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms.