Born: 3-May-1902
Birthplace: Guebwiller, Alsace, Germany
Died: 7-Jan-1984
Location of death: Bandol, France
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: France
Executive summary: Hertzian resonances

Father: Frederic Kastler
Mother: Anna Frey
Wife: Elise Cosset (m. 1924, one daughter, two sons)
Son: Daniel (professor of physics, b. 1926)
Daughter: Mireille (ophthalmologist, b. 1928)
Son: Claude-Yves (instructor in Russian, b. 1936)

    High School: Lycée Bartholdi, Colmar, Alsace
    University: École Normale Supérieure, Paris
    Teacher: Lycée of Mulhouse
    Professor: University of Bordeaux (-1941)
    Professor: École Normale Supérieure, Paris (1952-)
    Professor: Francqui Professor, University of Louvain (1953-54)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1966

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