Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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)