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Department of Commerce News Release - Statement by the US Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley on the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics Statement by NIST acting director , Dr. Robert Hebner, on the award of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics to William D. Phillips
Born on 5 November 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, William Phillips is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist known for the development of laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms. After earning his PhD in physics from MIT in 1976, he worked two more years at MIT as a postdoctoral fellow.
Professor of Physics, University of Maryland; Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology - Cited by 32,790 - cold atomic gases - metrology - quantum informaton
Oct 15, 1997 · William D. Phillips, NIST Fellow, NIST Atomic Physics Division: "I am thrilled to share in this prize along with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. The joint award emphasizes that this work was not done in isolation. My colleagues in this field have influenced me profoundly and given me an enormous amount of help and stimulation.
Dec 8, 1997 · The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 was awarded jointly to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
Dr. William D. Phillips is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Physics at Morgan State University. Dr. Phillips is also a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park’s Joint Quantum Institute.
Sep 27, 2016 · NIST Fellow William D. Phillips received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.” He shared the honor with Steven Chu of Stanford University and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France.
