About Jean Dalibard
Born 1958. Jean Dalibard is a French physicist, professor and researcher, known for Magneto-optical trap.
Jean Dalibard (born 8 December 1958) is a French physicist, Professor at the École Polytechnique, member of the French Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure.
In 2009, Dalibard received the Blaise Pascal medal of the European Academy of Sciences for "his outstanding and influential works in atomic physics and quantum optics". In 2012, he received the Max Born Award and Davisson–Germer Prize. He was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018. In 2020, he was honoured to be an international member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he was awarded the CNRS Gold Medal.
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Who is Jean Dalibard?
French physicist
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Jean Dalibard was born on 8 December 1958 in France.
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Jean Dalibard is a physicist, professor and researcher.
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Jean Dalibard is known for Magneto-optical trap.
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Jean Dalibard is French.
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