Wolfgang Ketterle

Wolfgang Ketterle
Ketterle at a symposium at Brown University, 2007
Born (1957-10-21) 21 October 1957 (age 66)
NationalityGermany, United States
Alma materHeidelberg
TUM
LMU
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Known forAtom laser
Bose–Einstein condensates
Spinor condensate
AwardsI. 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
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Heidelberg
MIT
Doctoral advisorHerbert Walther
Hartmut Figger
Doctoral studentsMartin 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,[1] and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose–Einstein condensation in these systems in 1995.[2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ "Wolfgang Ketterle". MIT Department of Physics. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  2. ^ Shachtman, Tom (January 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.

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