H. David Politzer – Biographical  H. David Politzer did not submit an autobiography.

English 15 October 1997 has decided to award the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, and Dr. William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, for development of methods to…

I was born on 5 November 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, just across the river from the town of Kingston, where my parents lived with my one and a half year old sister, Maxine. My parents had come to this small Pennsylvania town from places and backgrounds that were far apart and yet quite similar. My…

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Swedish 15 oktober 1997 har beslutat att utdela 1997 års Nobelpris i fysik gemensamt till Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University, Stanford, Kalifornien, USA, Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Collège de France och École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Frankrike, och Dr. William D. Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, för utveckling av metoder att kyla…

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Presentation Speech by Professor Bengt Nagel of the , December 10, 1997. Translation of the Swedish text. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics jointly to three physicists for “development of methods to cool and trap atoms with…