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Physics (209) |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (20) |
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Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (23) |
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complete name: |
Wolfgang Ketterle |
nobel prize: |
physics |
award year: |
2001 |
together with: |
Eric Allin Cornell |
together with: |
Carl Wieman |
prize share: |
Prize share: 1/3 |
rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 was awarded jointly to Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates." |
biography: |
Biography |
laureate facts: |
Facts |
laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
given name: |
Wolfgang |
family name: |
Ketterle |
occupation: |
physicist |
occupation: |
university teacher |
field of work: |
physics |
work location: |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139-4307, United States of America |
description: |
Wolfgang Ketterle 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. |
image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2001/summary/> |
date birth: |
1957 |
usual name: |
Wolfgang Ketterle |