In 1997 he shared the Nobel Prize for physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

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It is not only the laser-beam projectors and their visible cooling system with rotating vents that make the shimmering blue headlamps of the Concept GLA such an interesting feature.

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The new technique relies on using precision laser beams to "kick" antihydrogen atoms, knocking loose a bit of energy from them and cooling them down.

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