Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018).
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William Daniel Phillips
William Daniel Phillips is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
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science · American physicist (born 1948) · physicist · university teacher · also William Daniel Phillips, William D Phillips, Bill Phillips, Phillips
Born 5 November 1948 · Q190756
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2010· 2 entries
Won Moyal Medal (2010).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from ENS (2010).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (2000).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (1998).
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1997· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
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Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Atoms
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1997).
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With Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
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Won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Steven Chu for his contributions to laser cooling, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better study them, at the Nation
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1996· 1 entry
Won Albert A. Michelson Medal (1996).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Samuel Wesley Stratton Award (1987).
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1978· 1 entry
Joined National Bureau of Standards (currently NIST)
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1976· 1 entry
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor (1976).
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1970· 1 entry
Studied at Juniata College, Bachelor of Science (1970).
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1966· 1 entry
Studied at Camp Hill High School (1966).
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1959· 1 entry
Where he attended high school and graduated valedictorian of his class in 1966
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1948· 2 entries
Born 1948-11-05.
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In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to William Cornelius Phillips of Juniata, Pennsylvania, and Mary Catherine Savino of Ripacandida, Italy
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