Alfred Kastler - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1966
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Alfred Kastler

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1966
for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms
Citizenship
France France
Languages
French, German
date of birth
5/3/1902
place of birth
Guebwiller
date of death
1/7/1984
place of death
Bandol
Lived
81 years
educated at
  • Science Faculty of Paris
    • academic degree: doctorate in France
    • end time: 1935
  • École Normale Supérieure
member of
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 1970
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1976
  • French Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 3/2/1964
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten
  • Polish Physical Society
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • International Academy of the History of Science
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
position held
  • chairperson
    • start time: 1979
    • end time: 1984
  • chairperson
  • chairperson
employer
  • Science Faculty of Paris
occupation
  • poet
  • physicist
  • researcher
  • university teacher
notable work
  • optical pumping
  • Nuclear acoustic resonance
field of work
  • electronics
  • physics
  • optics
  • spectroscopy
doctoral student
  • Françoise Rioux-Damidau
  • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  • Gérard Daury
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