Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is Professor of Physics at the College de France. He is the co-author of Quantum Mechanics, published by Wiley. Dr. Cohen-Tannoudji is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. He earned his Doctorat en Sciences Physiques in atomic physics at the University of Paris.

Jacques Dupont-Roc holds a full-time research position at CNRS within the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Dr. Dupont-Roc earned his PhD in atomic physics at the University of Paris.

Gilbert Grynberg is Professor of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique and maintains a full time research position at CNRS. Dr. Grynberg earned his PhD in atomic physics at the University of Paris.