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William D. Phillips, foreground, acknowledges cheers after receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics from the Swedish king at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday December 10,1997. Phillips, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md, won with his fellow American Steven Chu and Frenchman Claude Cohen-Tannoudji for their development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. (AP Photo/Jonas Ekstromer) |