Atom clocks to take away

Optical atomic clocks measure the time as precisely as no other clock. Thanks to an invention of the German Nobel Prize winner Theodor Hänsch, they are now closer to the practice and are used for mobile applications.

By Nikolaus Fecht

Without him, the scientists would have no way of doing the time

Atom clocks to take away

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