!!Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
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Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur\\
Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite\\
Born on April 1, 1933 in Constantine\\
Member of Académie des Sciences (Paris)
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__Biography__
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji was born in 1933. He completed his Ph.D. with Professors Alfred Kastler and Jean Brossel in 1962 at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He then occupied a position of Professor at the University of Paris from 1964 to 1973. From 1973 to 2004, he was Professor of Atomic and Molecular Physics at the Collège de France in Paris. He is a member of the French Académie des Sciences since 1981, and a foreign member associate of many Sciences's Academy over the world.
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Among other distinctions, he has received the Gold Medal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Phillips and Steven Chu.
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He has been invited to give series of lectures in several Universities in Europe, United States, Canada, Israel, India, China, Indonesia, Korea, Brasil,….
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He has written about 200 theoretical and experimental papers dealing with various problems of atomic physics and quantum optics : optical pumping and light shifts, dressed atom approach for understanding the behaviour of atoms in intense RF or optical fields, quantum interference effects, resonance fluorescence, photon correlations, physical interpretation of radiative corrections, radiative forces, laser cooling and trapping, Bose-Einstein condensation. He is co-author of books on quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, quantum optics, Levy statistics. 
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!Curriculum Vitae
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__Carreer__
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*1953-1957 Ecole Normale Supérieure.
*1957 	Agrégation de Sciences Physiques.
*1957-1959 Military obligations
*1960-1964 Research position at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
*1962 PhD
*1964-1967 Associate Professor at Faculté des Sciences de Paris.
*1967-1973 Full Professor at Faculté des Sciences de Paris.
*1973-2004 Professor at Collège de France (Atomic and Molecular Physics).
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__Special lectures__
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*1976 	Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University
*1978 	European Physical Society Lecturer. 1981 Klosk Lecturer, New York University
*Welsh Lecturer, Toronto University
*1988 	Lorentz Professor, Leiden University
*1991 	Visiting Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
*1994 	Leigh Page Prize Lectures, Yale University
*1995 	Houston Memorial Lectures, Rice University
*1996 	Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University
*1997 	Distinguished Lecturer, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Sweden
*Alexander M. Cruickshank Award, Gordon Research Center, Henniker
*Distinguished JILA Visitor, University of Colorado, Boulder
*Linus Pauling Lectureship, Caltech, Pasadena
*1999 	Academy Lecture, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
*Homi Bhabha Lecture, TIFR, Mumbai
*Albert Einstein Lecture, New Delhi
*Aronov Memorial Lecture, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot
*Schrödinger Lecture, Imperial College, London
*2000 	Nishina Memorial Lecture, Tokyo University
*2001 	Lawrence C. Biedenharn Lecture, Texas University, Austin
*2002 	James Simon Lectures, Stony Brook University
*3rd Massey Memorial Lecture, University College London
*The 2002 James Franck Memorial Lecture, Academy of Science, Israel
*2003 	The Seo Nam Distinguished Lecture, Seoul National University, South Korea
*The Werner Heisenberg lecture, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich, Germany
*2004 	The Distinguished Jortner Lectures, Tel-Aviv University, Israël
*2005 	"Wolfgang Pauli" lecture, Zurich, Suisse
*2006 	Dean S. Edmonds Lecture, Boston
*Birla Memorial Lecture, Hyderabad, Inde
*Distinguished Lecture, Hong Kong
*2007 Conférences du Collège de France à Tunis
*Conférences à l’Université de Bilbao
*Distinguished Lecture, Hong Kong
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__Main scientific distinctions__
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*1963 	Langevin Prize of the French Physical Society
*1964 	Silver Medal of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
*1971 	Physics Great Prize of the French Physical Society
*1979 	Thomas Young Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics
*1980 	Ampère Prize of Académie des Sciences
*1986 	Fellow of the American Physical Society
*1991 	Research Award de l'Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
*1992 	Lilienfeld Prize of American Physical Society
*1992 	Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*Member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences
*1993 	Member of Academia Europaea
*Charles Townes Award of Optical Society of America
*1994 	Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)
*Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Uppsala
*1995 	Matteucci Medal of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, Roma
*1996 	Harvey Prize in Science and Technology of Technion Israël Institute of Technology, Haifa
*Quantum Electronics Prize of European Physical Society
*Associate foreign member of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
*Foreign Associate of the Accademia dei Lincei of Italy
*Gold Medal of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
*1997 	Nobel Prize in Physics
*1998 	Doctor Honoris Causa of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
*Honorary Doctor of Technology of Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) de Stockholm
*Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India
*1999 Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
*Member of the Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, Vatican City
*Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bar Ilan, Israël
*Honorary Associate Member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon
*Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science of the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
*Doctor Honoris Causa of the Université Libre of Bruxelles
*Doctor Honoris Causa of the University Federale of Pernambuco, Recife
*2000 	Foreign fellow of the Indian Science Academy of New Delhi
*Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Liège
*2002 	Honorary Professor of Pekin University
*Optical Society of America Honorary Member Honorary Membership of the Indonesia Physics Society
*2003 	Foreign Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
*Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
*2004 	Doctor Honoris Causa of the Tel-Aviv University, Israel
*Big Cross of the National Order of the Brazilian Scientific Merit
*2005 	Golden Medal CSCI, Espagne
*2007 	Docteur Honoris Causa de la City University de Hong Kong
*2007 	Docteur Honoris Causa de L'Universite Ben Gurion, Israël
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__Research__
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Theoretical and experimental investigations of various problems of atomic physics and quantum optics : optical pumping and light shifts, dressed atom approach for understanding the behavior of atoms in intense RF or optical fields, quantum interference effects, resonance fluorescence, photon correlations, physical interpretation of radiative corrections, radiative forces, laser cooling and trapping, Bose-Einstein condensation.