Claude Cohen-Tannoudji#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1326 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji passed away October 22, 2026.
Positions Held
- 1973 - 2004 Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Atomic and Molecular Physics
- 1964 - 1973 Professor at the Paris Faculty of Sciences, France
- 1960 - 1964 Researcher at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research)
- 1962 Ph.D in Physics
Fields of Scholarship
- Resonance fluorescence in intense resonant laser beams
- Atomic physics
- Radiative forces – laser cooling and trapping
- Bose-Einstein condensation
- Quantum optics
- Optical pumping
Honours and Awards
- 1969 CNRS Silver Medal
- 1979 Young Medal and Prize, for distinguished research in the field of optics
- 1991 Research Award of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1993 Charles Hard Townes Award
- 1994 Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden
- 1996 Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society
- 1996 CNRS Gold medal
- 1991 Research Award of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin, Germany
- 1992 Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society
- 1996 Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society
- Gold Medal of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
- 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light", shared with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips
- 2002 Honorary Member of the Optical Society
- 2005 Gold Medal of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
- 2010 Legion of Honour
