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William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
“An experimental physicist,” he told me, “is someone who gets paid for working at his hobby.” Another important part of my high school experience was meeting Jane Van Wynen.
William D. Phillips is an American physicist whose experiments using laser light to cool and trap atoms earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997. He shared the award with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who also developed methods of laser cooling and atom trapping. Phillips received.
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William D. Phillips. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997. Born: 5 November 1948, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Prize motivation: “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light”. Prize share: 1/3.
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.
William Phillips is a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of physics. In 1997 he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physics "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light."
William Phillips discusses how his home life helped develop his early interest in science, the cultural differences he has observed in the way physicists approach problems (5:03), his incredibly precise thesis and how it helped establish the value of the fine structure constant (8:05), his move from MIT to the National Bureau of Standards (14: ...
