Wolfgang Ketterle

Wolfgang Ketterle

Nobel Prize in Physics 2001

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”

Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He shared the 2001 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.

Field
Physics · Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Lifespan
1957–