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Physics World

Nobel spotlight falls on optics

Edwin Cartlidge

Published Nov 1, 2005• 1 citation
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Abstract

The 2005 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to the theorist who developed the first complete quantum theory of light and to two experimentalists who pushed laser-based spectroscopy to new levels of precision. The laureates' work has been influential in many areas of atomic physics, optics and metrology.
DOI
10.1088/2058-7058/18/11/7

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