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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 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.

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science · French physicist (born 1933) · physicist · university teacher · researcher · also Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude Nessim Cohen-Tannoudji, Cohen-Tannoudji

Born 1 April 1933 · Q190697

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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2016).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2010).
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2016· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2016Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (2016).

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2015· 1 entry

2015Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Cohen-Tannoudji signed the Mainau Declaration 2015 on Climate Change on the final day of the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

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2010· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2010Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2010).

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2007· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2007Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded honorary doctor of Ben-Gurion University (2007).

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2005· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2005Documented record84% confidence

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Won Gold medal of the Spanish National Research Council (2005).

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2004· 3 entries

Jun 15, 2004Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (2004).

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Jun 15, 2004Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University (2004).

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Jun 15, 2004Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (2004).

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2000· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2000Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (2000).

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1999· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1999Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctor of the Bar-Ilan University (1999).

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Jun 15, 1999Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles (1999).

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1998· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1998Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998).

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Jun 15, 1998Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology (1998).

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1997· 4 entries

Dec 10, 1997Documented record85% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.

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Jun 15, 1997Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1997).

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Jun 15, 1997Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1997).

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1997Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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"for the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light", shared with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips

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1996· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1996Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Won CNRS Gold medal (1996).

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Jun 15, 1996Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded Harvey Prize (1996).

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1995· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1995Documented record84% confidence

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Won Matteucci Medal (1995).

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Jun 15, 1995Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1995).

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1994· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1994Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala (1994).

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1993· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1993Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Charles Hard Townes Award (1993).

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1992· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1992Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Lilienfeld Prize (1992).

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1990· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1990Documented record84% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Awarded Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize (1990).

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1986· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1986Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Three Physicists Prize (1986).

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1985· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1985Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1985).

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1979· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1979Documented record84% confidence

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Won Young Medal and Prize (1979).

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Jun 15, 1979Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Prix Ampère (1979).

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1976· 1 entry

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Took sabbatical leave from the Collège de France, and lectured at Harvard University and MIT

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1973· 1 entry

1973Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Became a professor at the Collège de France

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1971· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1971Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Jean-Ricard Prize (1971).

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1964· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1964Documented record84% confidence

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Won CNRS silver medal (1964).

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1963· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1963Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Paul Langevin Award (1963).

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1960· 1 entry

1960Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Resumed working toward his doctorate, which he obtained from the École Normale Supérieure under the supervision of Alfred Kastler and Jean Brossel at the end of 1962

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1958· 1 entry

1958Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Married Jacqueline Veyrat, a high school teacher, with whom he has three children

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1953· 1 entry

1953Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Cohen-Tannoudji left for Paris to attend the École Normale Supérieure

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1933· 1 entry

Apr 1, 1933Documented record86% confidence

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Born 1933-04-01.

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1870· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1870Documented record85% confidence

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“My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition. In fact, our name, Cohen-Tannoudji, means simply the Cohen family from Tangiers. The Algerian Jews obtained the French citizenship in 1870 after Algeria became a French colony in 1830.”

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1870Source gives the year onlyDocumented record80% confidence

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After Algeria became a French colony in 1830

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Jun 2007Award

Awarded honorary doctor of Ben-Gurion University (2007).

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Jun 2005Award

Won Gold medal of the Spanish National Research Council (2005).

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Dec 1997Title

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.

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Jan 1870Quote

My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition. In fact, our name, Cohen-Tannoudji, means simply the Cohen family from Tangiers. The Algerian Jews obtained the French citizenship in 1870 after Algeria became a French colony in 1830.

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