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Sodium Atom (Na)

Laser cooled and trapped: 1987 by E. L. Raab, M. Prentiss, Alex Cable, Steven Chu, and D. E. Pritchard at Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ, USA.
Reference: Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 2631 (1987).

Basic information: Atomic/isotopic/spectroscopic information

(Some) groups currently using this atom:
      MIT
      NIST

Atomic structure:
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