Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle | |
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Ketterle at a symposium at Brown University, 2007 | |
| Born | 21 October 1957 |
| Nationality | Germany, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Heidelberg Technical University of Munich University of Munich Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics |
| Known for | Atom laser Bose–Einstein condensates Spinor condensate |
| Awards | I. I. Rabi Prize (1997) Dannie Heineman Prize (1999) Fritz London Memorial Prize (1999) Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000) Nobel Prize for Physics (2001) Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (2002) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Heidelberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Herbert Walther Hartmut Figger |
| Doctoral students | Martin Zwierlein |
Wolfgang Ketterle (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈkɛtɐlə] ⓘ; born 21 October 1957) 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.