Ph.D. Wolfgang KETTERLE Nobel Laureate for Physics; John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Director, Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, MA
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1982 | Diploma (equivalent to master s degree) from the Technical University of Munich |
1986 | Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich |
1986-1990 | Postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and at the |
University of Heidelberg in molecular spectroscopy and combustion diagnostics | |
1990-1993 | Postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
since 1993 | Member of the physics faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Mitgliedschaften
American Physical Society (APS), Fellow, since 1997 | |
Optical Society of America (OSA), Fellow, since 2006 | |
National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Associate, since 2002 | |
German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, since 2005 |
Publikationen
Bose-Einstein condensation in a gas of sodium atoms, Physical Review Letters 75, 3969-3973, 1995 | |
Vortices and Superfluidity in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas, Nature 435, 1047-1051, 2005 | |
see http://cua.mit.edu/ketterle_group/ketterle.htm for further publications. |
Auszeichnungen
I.I. Rabi Prize of the American Physical Society, 1997 | |
Gustav-Hertz-Prize of the German Physical Society, 1997 | |
Fritz London Prize in Low Temperature Physics, 1999 | |
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2001 | |
Knight Commander's Cross (Badge and Star) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2002 |