Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Teaching, Research, Nobel Prize in Physics, Bibliography

Physicist, born in Constantine, NE Algeria. He graduated in 1962 from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, where he went on to work. In 1997 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his contribution to the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics.

Cohen-Tannoudji was born in Constantine to Algerian Jewish parents, when Algeria was still part of France. After primary and secondary studies in Algiers, Cohen-Tannoudji left Algeria for Paris to attend the École normale supérieure.

Teaching

After his thesis, he started teaching quantum mechanics at the Paris university.

Research

In 1973, he became a professor at the Collège de France.

Nobel Prize in Physics

His work there eventually lead to the physics Nobel Prize of 1997 for the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light, shared with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips.

Bibliography

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu and Frank Laloë, Mécanique quantique vol. I and II, Collection Enseignement des sciences, Paris (1973) ISBN 2-7056-5733-9 (ISBN 0-471-16433-X for the English translation) (translated in many languages) Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Gilbert Grynberg and Jacques Dupont-Roc, Introduction a l'électrodynamique Quantique (In French) Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Gilbert Grynberg and Jacques Dupont-Roc, Processus D'interraction Photons-Atomes (In French, also in English) Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Atoms in light fields World scientific, (this is a reprint of most important papers)