William Daniel Phillips
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William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light. His discoveries have enabled scientists to study atoms in unprecedented detail and have practical applications in fields like atomic clocks and quantum computing.
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- 1948-11-05
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William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
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