Information Further information is available at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Information Department, Box 50005, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: 46 8 673 95 25, Fax: 46 8 15 56 70 E-mail: info@kva.se, Website: www.kva.se The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University, Stanford, ...

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is awarded the 1996 CNRS Gold Medal Every year since 1954, the CNRS has awarded its highest distinction, the Gold Medal, to outstanding members of the French scientific community whose work has contributed in an exceptional manner to the development and influence of French research. The medal is a crowning reward to scientists whose work and career have earned them ...