Wolfgang Ketterle - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2001
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Wolfgang Ketterle

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2001
for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
Citizenship
Germany Germany
Languages
German
date of birth
10/21/1957
place of birth
Heidelberg
Age
68 years
member of
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
    • start time: 2005
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2002
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 2001
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
doctoral student
  • Dan Stamper-Kurn
  • Subhadeep Gupta
  • Martin W. Zwierlein
occupation
  • university teacher
  • physics teacher
  • physicist
educated at
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Heidelberg University
  • Technical University of Munich
employer
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
field of work
  • physics
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