Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016).
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Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle 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 w…
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Born 21 October 1957 · Q76462
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2016· 1 entry
2014· 1 entry
In Boston, ran a personal record of 2:44:06
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2011· 1 entry
Ketterle has been married to Michèle Plott since 2011.
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Wolfgang Paul Lecture (2009).
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2006· 1 entry
Was appointed Associate Director of RLE and began serving as director of MIT's Center for Ultracold Atoms
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2003· 1 entry
As well as a 2005 experiment providing evidence for "high-temperature" superfluidity in a fermionic condensate
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (2002).
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2001· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2001).
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Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2001).
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Together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman
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2000· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000).
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Fritz London Award (1999).
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Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize (1999).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded I. I. Rabi Prize (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
His group was in 1997 able to demonstrate interference between two colliding condensates, as well as the first realization of an "atom laser", the atomic analogue of an optical laser
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1986· 1 entry
Earned a PhD in experimental molecular spectroscopy under the supervision of Herbert Walther and Hartmut Figger at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, before conducting postdoctoral research at Ga
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1985· 1 entry
He has five children, three with Gabriele Ketterle, to whom he was married from 1985 to 2001.
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1976· 1 entry
Entered the University of Heidelberg, before transferring to the Technical University of Munich two years later, where he gained the equivalent of his master's diploma in 1982
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-10-21.
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