Wolfgang Ketterle Ph.D.
Wolfgang Ketterle Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
Nobel co-recipients Eric A. Cornell, Carl E. Wieman
Name: Wolfgang Ketterle
Birth: 21 October 1957, Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany)
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Award: “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”
Subject: Atomic Physics
Portion of cash: 1/3
Ph.D. Advisors: Prof. Herbert Walther and Dr. Hartmut Figger at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany
Physicist – Atomic Physics. Hobbies: Running, Bicycling.
“…the quest for pure knowledge and the pursuit of goals which are only vaguely defined and change as the research progresses… I didn’t anticipate that the best was still to come”.
Vita
Publications
Publications 2012-2013
Patent
Invited Talks at Conferences (2012-1993)
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Quotations
External Resources – Text
Videos
External Resources – Text
MIT’s Wolfgang Ketterle: New Marching Orders for Atoms
I’m A Runner
German – Long interview: Porträt Wolfgang Ketterle: Der Mann, der in die Kälte (Spektrum der Wissenschaft 11-2009)
German – Some autobiographical notes W. Ketterle: Im Zickzack-Kurs zum Nobelpreis. Jahresbericht 2001, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
German – Netzzeitung Interview, 12/9/02