A physicist who took atoms near absolute zero, and physics further

A physicist who took atoms near absolute zero, and physics further left Claude Cohen-Tannoudji in 2009. Pruneau (CC BY-SA) Pruneau (CC BY-SA) https://th-i.thgim.com/public/sci-tech/science/6ostis/article71625448.ece/alternates/FREE_1200/Paris_de_la_Recherche_-_Claude_Cohen-Tannoudji_7.jpg Claude Cohen-Tannoudji had many connections with India, including acknowledging the work of a little-known scientist who had died three decades before Cohen-Tannoudji won the Nobel Prize The French physicist Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who helped develop techniques to cool atoms to barely above absolute zero using laser light, passed away on October 22, aged 93. His work revolutionised physics by giving scientists a way to manipulate atoms and probe their quantum properties, work for which he won a piece of the physics Nobel Prize in 1997. As it happens, Cohen-Tannoudji also had many connections with physics in India, including acknowledging the work of a little-known — even in India — physicist who had died three decades before the prize was awarded.