William Daniel Phillips

William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist and university teacher born in Wilkes-Barre in 1948. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and has served as a professor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the University of Maryland, The Catholic University of America, and the University of Queensland. Phillips was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and works in the field of physics.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society. His awards include the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award, and the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science. Phillips is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He speaks English and identifies with Christianity.