Rainer Blatt

Austrian physicist · Germany · On the map · Scientists · Born 1952 · age 74

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.

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2023Herbert Walther PrizeAward2020Honorary Doctor of the University of Madrid ComplutenseAward2012Stern-Gerlach MedalAward2009Zeiss Research AwardAward2008Kardinal-Innitzer-PreisAward2006Erwin Schrödinger PrizeAward2000Fellow of the American Physical SocietyAward1952Born8 September 1952

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