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The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics—Laser Cooling and Trapping

WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooksJul 24, 20160 citations

Laser-cooled atoms clinch Nobel prize

Physics WorldNov 1, 19970 citations

Nobel Lecture: Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms

William D. Phillips

Reviews of Modern PhysicsJul 1, 19981,445 citations

Masters of Atom Manipulation Win Physics Prize

James Glanz

NOBEL PRIZESPhysicists nowadays can cool, trap, bounce, and toss atoms with the facility of microscopic jugglers. That facility is due in no small part to techniques developed by three masters of atomic manipulation--Steven Chu of Stanford University, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the Acole Normale SupA©rieure in Paris, and William Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland--who have been awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics. Over the last decade, they showed how atoms could be chilled to millionths of a degree above absolute zero and trapped by bombarding them with beams of laser light. The work has proved invaluable for basic physics and has also led to dozens of applications. For more information on this prize, see the [Nobel Foundation Web site][1]. [1]: http://www.nobel.se/announcement-97/physics97.htmlNOBEL PRIZESPhysicists nowadays can cool, trap, bounce, and toss atoms with the facility of microscopic jugglers. That facility is due in no small part to techniques developed by three masters of atomic manipulation--Steven Chu of Stanford University, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the Acole Normale SupA©rieure in Paris, and William Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland--who have been awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics. Over the last decade, they showed how atoms could be chilled to millionths of a degree above absolute zero and trapped by bombarding them with beams of laser light. The work has proved invaluable for basic physics and has also led to dozens of applications. For more information on this prize, see the [Nobel Foundation Web site][1]. [1]: http://www.nobel.se/announcement-97/physics97.html

ScienceOct 24, 19972 citations

1997 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS : LASER COOLING AND TRAPPING OF ATOMS

R. Srinivasan

Jan 25, 19981 citation

Awards: Laser-cooled Nobel prize

Alison Goddard

Winning the Nobel prize for physics is like being hit by a tornado, according to one of this year's laureates. "I just wish it would stop so that I could go back to work," says Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the Collège de France and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He shares the 1997 prize with Steve Chu of Stanford University in California and Bill Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, for developing techniques to cool and trap atoms at extremely low temperatures using lasers.Winning the Nobel prize for physics is like being hit by a tornado, according to one of this year's laureates. "I just wish it would stop so that I could go back to work," says Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the Collège de France and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He shares the 1997 prize with Steve Chu of Stanford University in California and Bill Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, for developing techniques to cool and trap atoms at extremely low temperatures using lasers.

Physics WorldNov 1, 19970 citations

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 "for Development of Methods to Cool and Trap Atoms with Laser Light".

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