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Wolfgang Ketterle
born 1957
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryWolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose–Einstein condensation in these systems in 1995. For this achievement, as well as early fundamental studies of condensates, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
October 21, 1957
Heidelberg
Citizenship
Germany
Occupations & fields
physicistuniversity teacherphysics teacher
Awards & honours
Order of Merit of Baden-WürttembergGreat Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyNobel Prize in PhysicsBenjamin Franklin MedalFritz London AwardDannie Heineman Prize
- Field and occupation
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