William Daniel Phillips
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William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
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William Daniel Phillips
said · May 9, 1999
While in high school, I spent a summer working in a university research lab.
(Commencement Address, May 9, 1999)
William Daniel Phillips
said
Wineland and Haroche realized a long-standing dream of quantum physics: studying the behavior of single quantum objects.
William Daniel Phillips
said
I think a lot people had this idea that science advances through eureka moments and it's true to some extent.
(quote at 1:02:42 of 1:28:55 in video)
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Serge HarocheAlso won Albert A. Michelson Medal
Eric Allin CornellAlso won Samuel Wesley Stratton Award
Douglas OsheroffAlso won Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
Elizabeth DoleAlso won Arthur S. Flemming Award
Gérard MourouAlso won Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
James RothmanAlso won honorary doctorate from ENSAbout this person
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United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
living
Dates
Born 1948 · age 77
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