Wolfgang Ketterle

Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist an professor o physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His resairch haes focused on experiments that trap an cuil atoms tae temperaturs close tae absolute zero,[1] an he led ane o the first groups tae realize Bose–Einstein condensation in thir seestems in 1995.[2] For this achievement, as well as early fundamental studies o condensates, he wis awairdit the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, thegither wi Eric Allin Cornell an Carl Wieman.[3]


Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle at a symposium at Brown Varsity, 2007
Born (1957-10-21) 21 October 1957 (age 66)
Heidelberg, Wast Germany
NaitionalityGermany, Unitit States
Alma materHeidelberg
TUM
LMU
Max Planck Institute o Quantum Optics
Kent forBose–Einstein condensates
AwairdsBenjamin Franklin Medal (2000)
Nobel Prize for Physics (2001)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsVarsity o Heidelberg
MIT
Doctoral advisorHerbert Walther
Hartmut Figger

References eedit

  1. "Wolfgang Ketterle". MIT Department of Physics. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  2. Shachtman, Tom (Januar 2008). "The Coldest Place in the Universe". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  3. "Nobel Prize in Physics 2001". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media. Retrieved 27 October 2014.