Theodor W. Hänsch
German physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)
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Theodor W. Hänsch is a German physicist born in 1941 who won the Nobel Prize for his work in physics. His research and discoveries have been significant enough to earn him recognition as one of the world's leading scientists in his field.
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- 1941-10-30
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- HTSeq—a Python framework to work with high-throughput sequencing data
· 2014 · cited 19,255x
- Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms
· 2002 · cited 5,028x
- Optical frequency metrology
· 2002 · cited 2,735x
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Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch ( German pronunciation: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈhɛnʃ] ; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber.
Hänsch is Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (quantum optics) and Professor of experimental physics and laser spectroscopy at LMU Munich in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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