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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1990s (104) 1997 (12) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1940s (122) 1948 (11) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth North America (290) United States (268) Middle Atlantic states (45) Pennsylvania (15) Wilkes-Barre (2) 18. Living Winners 18. Living Winners Alive (292) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) W (48) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name L-R (258) P (41) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) W (37) William (20) 23. Religion 23. Religion Religious group (353) Christianity (158) Protestant (78) Methodist (11) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) France (92) Paris (73) École Normale Supérieure (20) Short-term academic staff (8) United Kingdom (235) Oxford (69) University of Oxford (69) Short-term academic staff (36) North America (529) United States (521) Middle Atlantic states (178) Maryland (46) University of Maryland (9) College Park (9) University of Maryland, College Park (9) Long-term academic staff (2) Northeastern states (374) Massachusetts (226) Cambridge (217) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (93) Alumni (38) Short-term academic staff (38) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) American Physical Society (113) E-P (571) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) P (109) Pontifical Academy of Sciences (83) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards A-B (362) A (285) Albert A. Michelson Medal (6) Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (6) Arthur S. Flemming Award (1) E-F (439) F (394) Fellow of the American Physical Society (107) Fellow of the Optical Society (14) Q-Z (398) R (196) Richtmyer Memorial Award (23) complete name: William Daniel Phillips nobel prize: physics award year: 1997 together with: Steven Chu together with: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji prize share: Prize share: 1/3 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 was awarded jointly to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: William family name: Phillips occupation: physicist occupation: university teacher occupation: academic field of work: physics work location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America description: William Daniel Phillips is a Nobel Prize-winning, American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1997/summary/> date birth: 1948 usual name: William Phillips
