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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

1933 - Today

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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (French pronunciation: [klod kɔɛn tanudʒi]; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist and researcher 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2024). Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is the 232nd most popular physicist (down from 228th in 2024), the 18th most popular biography from Algeria (up from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Algerian Physicist.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist who is most famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics.

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Among physicists, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ranks 232 out of 851. Before him are Ettore Majorana, Alexander Prokhorov, Frederick Reines, Klaus Fuchs, Edme Mariotte, and Robert Hofstadter. After him are Jacques Charles, Victor Weisskopf, Tsung-Dao Lee, Leo Esaki, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Nikolay Basov.

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Among people born in 1933, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ranks 40. Before him are Kim Novak, Steven Weinberg, Quincy Jones, Edmund Phelps, Álvaro Siza Vieira, and Robert Curl. After him are Jerry Falwell, Costa-Gavras, Joan Collins, Ilia II of Georgia, Rik Van Looy, and Bernardo Provenzano.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ranks 18 out of 213. Before him are Ahmed Ben Bella (1916), Abdelmadjid Tebboune (1945), Juba II (-52), Emir Abdelkader (1808), Dihya (700), and Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (1898). After him are Juba I of Numidia (-85), Houari Boumédiène (1932), Martianus Capella (360), Ferhat Abbas (1899), Daniel Auteuil (1950), and Abd al-Mu'min (1094).

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Among physicists born in Algeria, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ranks 1. 

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