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
“…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”.
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- It was clear to me early on that after high school I would go to university to study physics, mathematics or computer sciences. I decided on physics, as I thought it would combine the real world and mathematics.
- Before starting university, I received a fellowship from …(German National Merit Foundation). Part of the fellowship was the opportunity to attend special summer schools…. Most importantly, those schools brought together a select group of highly talented students. The interactions with them reinforced my motivation to set high goals in life for myself.
- I also became involved with the peace movement and a group working on third world issues.
- At MIT, where half of the graduate students are foreigners, there is no prejudice, but rather a tolerance and appreciation for unconventional ideas and styles of work