Theodor W. Hänsch
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2005for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique
- Citizenship
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United States 
Germany - Languages
- German
- date of birth
- 10/30/1941
- place of birth
- Heidelberg
- Age
- 84 years
- member of
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- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 11/27/2002
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1/1/2001
- Academia Europaea
- start time: 1/1/2009
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- French Academy of Sciences
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Physical Society
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Romanian Academy
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- doctoral student
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- Carl Wieman
- Immanuel Bloch
- Vladan Vuletić
- Matthias Weidemüller
- Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
- William M. Fairbank, Jr.
- James N. Eckstein
- employer
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- Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
- Stanford University
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- University of Florence
- Heidelberg University
- educated at
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- Heidelberg University
- Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg
- Stanford University
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- field of work
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- physics
- occupation
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- physicist
- university teacher
- work location
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- Munich
- position held
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- professor