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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. 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji has received more than 284,415 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is the 227th most popular physicist (down from 203rd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Algeria (up from 26th 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

Among physicists, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ranks 227 out of 851. Before him are John L. Hall, John Clauser, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Roy J. Glauber, and Frederick Reines. After him are Theodor W. Hänsch, Edme Mariotte, Makoto Kobayashi, Burton Richter, Joseph Plateau, and Serge Haroche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ranks 50. Before him are Jerzy Grotowski, David McCallum, Gian Maria Volonté, Richard Rogers, Joan Collins, and Charles K. Kao. After him are Stanley Milgram, Edward de Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bobby Robson, Wilbur Smith, and Ilia II of Georgia.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ranks 23 out of 213. Before him are Dihya (700), Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (1898), Juba I of Numidia (-85), Martianus Capella (360), Daniel Auteuil (1950), and Ptolemy of Mauretania (-9). After him are Jacques Rancière (1940), Syphax (-250), Ferhat Abbas (1899), Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Abd al-Mu'min (1094), and Marcel Cerdan (1916).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Algeria

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

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