Wolfgang Ketterle
German physicist
Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His works focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero.[1]
Wolfgang Ketterle | |
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 Wolfgang Ketterle at a symposium at Brown University, 2007 | |
| Born | 21 October 1957 |
| Nationality | Germany, United States |
| Alma mater | Heidelberg TUM LMU Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics |
| Known for | Bose–Einstein condensates |
| Awards | Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000) Nobel Prize for Physics (2001) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Heidelberg MIT |
| Doctoral advisor | Herbert Walther Hartmut Figger |
| Doctoral students | Kendall B. Davis Marc-Oliver Mewes Dan Stamper-Kurn Martin Zwierlein |
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.[2]
References
change- ↑ "Wolfgang Ketterle". MIT Department of Physics. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
- ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physics 2001". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
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