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Who shared the Nobel Prize with Phillips in 1997?

  • Richard Feynman

  • Marie Curie

  • Steven Chu

  • Albert Einstein

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Steven Chu shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with William Daniel Phillips for their development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. This achievement, known as laser cooling, has revolutionized atomic physics and has numerous applications, including in atomic clocks, precision measurements, and quantum computing.
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