RIP Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1933-2026), Nobel, laser cooling

[robphy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Cohen-Tannoudji

https://www.lkb.fr/en/laboratoire/presentation/actualites/death-of-claude-cohen-tannoudji/

It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, on 22 October.

https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...-dompteur-d-atomes-est-mort_6799052_3382.html

Professeur au Collège de France, ce maître du froid et de la lumière avait réussi l’exploit d’emprisonner les atomes. Il s’est éteint le 22 octobre à l’âge de 93 ans.

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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1997/summary/

"Manipulating atoms with photons"(Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 70, No. 3, July 1998)
https://journals.aps.org/rmp/pdf/10.1103/RevModPhys.70.707

(1989) "Laser cooling below the Doppler limit by polarization gradients: simple theoretical models"
J. Dalibard and C. Cohen-Tannoudji
Journal of the Optical Society of America B Vol. 6, Issue 11, pp. 2023-2045 (1989)
https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.6.002023
https://opg.optica.org/josab/fulltext.cfm?uri=josab-6-11-2023

(1990) New Mechanisms for Laser Cooling
Claude N. Cohen‐Tannoudji and William D. Phillips
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881239
https://physicstoday.aip.org/features/new-mechanisms-for-laser-cooling

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(2018) Claude Cohen-Tannoudji : Manipulating atoms with light


(2005) Albert Einstein Annus Mirabilis 2005 | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | DIPC


(1992) Claude Cohen-Tannoudji at MIT, 1992 - Atom-Photon Interactions


(1962, dissertation) Théorie quantitative du cycle de pompage optique, Vérification expérimentale des nouveaux effets prévus
by Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude
https://archive.org/details/IA41543723_0016

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https://inspirehep.net/authors/1055734
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BXN_ug0AAAAJ&hl=en
https://academictree.org/physics/tree.php?pid=55763

 

[Astronuc]

I bought the book Quantum Mechanics (1973) by Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Bernard Diu, Franck Laloë during my undergrad program, probably in the 2nd year around 1976-1977.