Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Born: April 1, 1933 (age 92)
Bio: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a French physicist and Nobel Laureate. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms.
Known for:
- Quantum Mechanics (1977)
- Advances in Atomic Physics (2011)