Cohen-Tannoudji Claude

COHEN-TANNOUDJI Claude, Nessim

Born on April 1st, 1933 in Constantine.

Carreer

1953-1957	Ecole Normale Supérieure.
1957	Agrégation (highest french academic-rank qualification) in Physics.
1957-1959	Military obligations.
1960-1964	Research position at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research).
1962	PhD.
1964-1967	Associate Professor at the Paris Faculty of Sciences.
1967-1973	Full Professor at the Paris Faculty of Sciences.
1973-2004	Professor at the Collège de France (Chair of Atomic and Molecular Physics).

Special lectures

1976	Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Visiting Professor, Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
1978	European Physical Society Lecturer (England, Sweden, Romania, Hungary).
1981	Klosk Lecturer, New York University, USA. Welsh Lecturer, Toronto University, Canada.
1988	Lorentz Professor, Leiden University, The Nederlands.
1991	Visiting Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy. Visiting professor, Scuola Internazionale di Fisica Enrico Fermi, Varenna, Italy.
1994	Leigh Page Prize Lectures, Yale University, New Haven, USA.
1995	Houston Memorial Lectures, Rice University, Houston, USA. Adriano Gozzini Memorial Lecture, Pisa, Italy. Visiting professor, Scuola Internazionale di Fisica Enrico Fermi, Varenna, Italy.
1996	Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Visiting professor, Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1997	Distinguished Lecturer, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Sweden. Alexander M. Cruickshank Award, Gordon Research Center, Henniker, USA. Distinguished JILA Visitor, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Linus Pauling Lectureship, Caltech, Pasadena, USA.
1999	Academy Lecture, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India. Homi Bhabha Lecture, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India. Albert Einstein Lecture, New Delhi, India. Aronov Memorial Lecture, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel. Schrödinger Lecture, Imperial College, London, UK.
2000	Nishina Memorial Lecture, Tokyo University, Japan.
2001	Lawrence C. Biedenharn Lecture, Texas University, Austin, USA.
2002	James Simon Lectures, Stony Brook University, New York, USA. 3rd Massey Memorial Lecture, University College London, UK. 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, Israel. Anna Mc Pherson Lecture, Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada. Conference Augustin Frigon, Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada.
2005	"Wolfgang Pauli" Lecture, Zurich, Switzerland. Lamb Lecture, Ulm, Germany.
2006	Dean S. Edmonds Lecture, Boston University, Boston, USA. Birla Memorial Lecture, Hyderabad, India. France - Hong Kong Distinguished Lecture Series, City University, Kowlon, China.
2007	The Collège de France Lectures, Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Beït Al-Hikma, Carthage, Tunisia. France - Hong Kong Distinguished Lecture Series, City University of Hong Kong, Kowlon, Hong Kong, China. Lectures on Quantum Gases, Institut Henri Poincaré, paris, France. Public Lectures, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Shiva, Israel.
2008	Hyman and Irene Kreitman Annual Memorial Lecture, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Third Nobel Prize Laureates Meeting – Science and Society, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Honeywell Nobel Laureate Lecture Series, Hyderabad, India. Hascoe Lecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. Pollack Lecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. France - Hong Kong Distinguished Lecture Series, City University, Kowlon, Hong Kong, China.
2009	Oppenheimer Distinguished Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Distinguished Lecture, National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan. Honeywell Nobel Laureate Lecture and Colloquium, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. 75th anniversary of Schrödinger’s Lectures at the UIMP, Conference on quantum mechanics, Santander, Spain.
2010	Albert Einstein Memorial Lecture, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, Israel. Einstein Colloquium, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Les Grandes Conférences de Lyon, France. Colloquium of the Physics Department Lecture, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Raffles laureate Lecture series, Raffles Institution, Singapore. Cold atom Workshop, General and specialized Lectures, School of Physical and mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2011	Scott Lectures, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. Invited lecture, Iberdrola Chair at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Honeywell Initiative for Science and Engineering, Beijing, China.
2012	Nobel Laureate Master Class, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapour. Ramsey Memorial, Harvard University, Boston, USA. Academic Year Opening Colloquium, Spinoza Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Nederlands. Jook Walraven Symposium, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, The Nederlands. Lecture at the French Academy of Sciences : Défis scientifiques du XXIème siècle, Paris, France. France - Hong Kong Distinguished Lecture Series, City University, Kowlon, Hong Kong, China.
2013	International Conference on Attosecond Physics, SYMPA - Pierre Agostini & Alfred Maquet Symposium, Paris, France. Passion for Knowledge - Quantum 13, Donostia International Physics Center, San Sebastian, Espagne. Celebration of Daniel Kleppner's 80th Birthday, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Harvard University, Boston, USA. Sixth Science Conclave 2013, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India.
2014	French-Israeli Symposium in Physics of the Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the French Academy of Sciences, Jérusalem, Israel. Honeywell Initiative for Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Singapore. 65th Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting, Lindau, Germany.

Honors and Awards

1963	Langevin Prize of the French Physical Society (SFP).
1964	Silver Medal of the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research).
1971	Physics Great Prize of the French Physical Society (SFP).
1979	Thomas Young Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics, London, UK.
1980	Ampère Prize of the French Academy of Sciences.
1981	Member of the French Academy of Sciences.
1985	"Prix des trois physiciens" of the Fondation Eugène Bloch, Paris, France.
1986	Fellow of the American Physical Society. Honorary Member of the Union des Physiciens, Paris, France.
1991	Research Award de l'Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
1992	Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society. 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 the Optical Society of America. Foreign Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences.
1994	Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, US. Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
1995	Matteucci Medal of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, Roma, Italy.
1996	Harvey Prize in Science and Technology of Technion Israël Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. 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 Nazionale dei Lincei, Italy. Chevalier, National Order of the Legion of Honour, France. Gold Medal of the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research).
1997	Nobel Prize in Physics.
1998	Doctor Honoris Causa of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Honorary Doctor of Technology of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India.
1999	Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, India. Member of the Pontificia Academia Scientiarum, Vatican City. Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bar Ilan, Israel. 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, Belgium. Doctor Honoris Causa of the University Federale of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
2000	Foreign Fellow of the Indian Science Academy of New Delhi, India. Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Liège, Belgium.
2002	Honorary Professor of Pekin University, China. Honorary Member of the Optical Society of America. 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, Brazil.
2005	Gold Medal of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain.
2007	Doctor Honoris Causa of the City University of Hong Kong, China. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheeva, Israel.
2009	Honorary Professor of Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
2010 2011	Honorary member of the European Physical Society. Grand Officer, National Order of the Legion of Honour, France. Doctor of Science of the University of Strathclyde, UK. Honorary Professor of the BeiHang University (BUAA), Beijing, China.
2013 2014 2015 2016	Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Santiago, Chile. Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Doctor Honoris Causa of the University San Martin of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Correspondant member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona (RACAB), Spain. Grand’Croix, National Order of the Legion of Honor, France. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
	Books

1965	Optique et Electronique Quantiques, C. de Witt, A. Blandin and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, Les Houches 1964, Gordon & Breach, New York.
1973	Mécanique Quantique, tomes I and II, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu and F. Laloë, Hermann, Paris.
1977	Quantum Mechanics, tomes I and II, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B.Diu and F.Laloë, Wiley, New York.
1987	Photons et Atomes, Introduction à l'Electrodynamique Quantique, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Dupont-Roc and G. Grynberg, InterEditions and Editions du CNRS, Paris.
1988	Processus d'interaction entre Photons et Atomes, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Dupont-Roc and G. Grynberg, InterEditions and Editions du CNRS, Paris.
1989	Photons and Atoms, Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Dupont-Roc and G. Grynberg, Wiley, New York.

Atom-Photon interactions : Basic Processes and Applications, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J. Dupont-Roc and G.

Grynberg, Wiley, New York.

1994 Atoms in Electromagnetic Fields, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, World Scientific, Singapour.

2002 Levy Statistics and Laser Cooling. How rare events bring atoms to rest, F. Bardou, J.P. Bouchaud, A. Aspect

and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

2004 Atoms in Electromagnetic Fields, Second Edition, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, World Scientific, Singapour.

2011 Advances in Atomic Physics - An Overview, C. Cohen-Tannoudji and D. Guéry-Odelin, World Scientific, Singapour.

Author of about 200 theoretical and experimental papers on various problems of atomic physics and quantum optics related to radiation-matter interactions.