Wolfgang Ketterle
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 67 |
Date of birth | October 21,1957 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Heidelberg |
Germany | |
Field | Physics |
Employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Academic advisor | Herbert Walther |
Awards | Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics |
Nobel Prize in Physics | |
Education | Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics |
Notable student | Martin Zwierlein |
Gretchen Campbell | |
Subhadeep Gupta | |
Nationality | American |
German | |
H index | 118 |
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ID | 805565 |
Wolfgang Ketterle Life story
Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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.