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World Service,16 Oct 1997,28 mins

Nobel Prize Winners

The Works

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Accurately measuring time. The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips for developing methods to cool and trap atoms.

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