Wolfgang Ketterle Ph.D.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
Nobel co-recipients Eric A. Cornell, Carl E. Wieman

Physicist - Atomic Physics. Hobbies: Running, Bicycling.

"...the quest for pure knowledge and the pursuit of goals which are only vaguely defined and change as the research progresses... I didn't anticipate that the best was still to come".

Extarnal Resources - Text

MIT's Wolfgang Ketterle: New Marching Orders for Atoms

I'm A Runner

German - Long interview: PortrÃ¤t Wolfgang Ketterle: Der Mann, der in die KÃ¤lte (Spektrum der Wissenschaft 11-2009)

German - Some autobiographical notes W. Ketterle: Im Zickzack-Kurs zum Nobelpreis. Jahresbericht 2001, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

German - Netzzeitung Interview, 12/9/02

Photo: Courtesy Dr.Wolfgang Ketterle

Name: Wolfgang Ketterle
Birth: 21 October 1957, Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany)
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Award: "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"
Subject: Atomic Physics
Portion of cash: 1/3
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PhD Advisors: Prof. Herbert Walther and Dr. Hartmut Figger at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany
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