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Wolfgang Ketterle

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Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and university teacher born in Heidelberg in 1957. He works in the field of physics and is employed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ketterle is educated at Heidelberg University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Technical University of Munich. His doctoral advisor was Herbert Walther. He speaks German.

Ketterle is a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences, the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg, the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, and the Fritz London Award. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2001

    “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”

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Wolfgang
Gender
male
Citizenship
Germany
Place of birth
Heidelberg
Educated at
Technical University of Munich
Employer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Languages spoken
German
Doctoral advisor
Herbert Walther
Field of work
physics
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Ketterle.jpg
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Wolfgang Ketterle
date of birth
1957-10-21
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Wolfgang Ketterle
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Encyclopedic overview

Wolfgang Ketterle ( German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈkɛtɐlə] ; born 21 October 1957) 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.

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