Theodor W. Hänsch - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2005
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Theodor W. Hänsch

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2005
for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique
Together with: John L. Hall, Roy J. Glauber
Citizenship
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Languages
German
date of birth
10/30/1941
place of birth
Heidelberg
Age
84 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • physicist
field of work
  • physics
educated at
  • Heidelberg University
  • Helmholtz-Gymnasium Heidelberg
  • Stanford University
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
employer
  • Heidelberg University
  • Stanford University
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • University of Florence
  • Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
position held
  • professor
work location
  • Munich
member of
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2001
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 2009
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 11/27/2002
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Romanian Academy
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Immanuel Bloch
  • William M. Fairbank, Jr.
  • Carl Wieman
  • Matthias Weidemüller
  • Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler
  • Vladan Vuletić
  • James N. Eckstein
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