Wolfgang Ketterle
German physicist · Germany · Scientists · Born 1957 · age 68
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Something wrong?Wolfgang 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.
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Wolfgang 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.
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Eric Allin CornellBoth received I. I. Rabi Prize
David J. WinelandBoth received Wolfgang Paul Lecture
Moungi BawendiBoth received Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
Gerd FaltingsBoth received Dannie Heineman Prize
David J. ThoulessBoth received Fritz London Award
Igor ShafarevichBoth received Dannie Heineman PrizeFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.