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Rainer Blatt

born 1952

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Wikipedia Summary

Rainer Blatt is a German-Austrian experimental physicist. His research centres on the areas of quantum optics and quantum information. He and his team performed one of the first experiments to teleport atoms, the other was done at NIST in Boulder Colorado. The reports of both groups appeared back-to-back in Nature.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
September 8, 1952
Idar-Oberstein
Citizenship

Germany

Occupations & fields
physicistuniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Stern–Gerlach MedalErwin Schrödinger PrizeZeiss Research AwardFellow of the American Physical Societyhonorary doctor of the University of Madrid ComplutenseKardinal-Innitzer-Preis
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