Wolfgang Ketterle

Wolfgang Ketterle
Wolfgang Ketterle at a symposium at Brown Varsity, 2007
Born	(1957-10-21) 21 October 1957 Heidelberg, Wast Germany
Naitionality	Germany, Unitit States
Alma mater	Heidelberg TUM LMU Max Planck Institute o Quantum Optics
Kent for	Bose–Einstein condensates
Awairds	Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000) Nobel Prize for Physics (2001)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Varsity o Heidelberg MIT
Doctoral advisor	Herbert Walther Hartmut Figger

Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist an professor o physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His resairch haes focused on experiments that trap an cuil atoms tae temperaturs close tae absolute zero, an he led ane o the first groups tae realize Bose–Einstein condensation in thir seestems in 1995. For this achievement, as well as early fundamental studies o condensates, he wis awairdit the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, thegither wi Eric Allin Cornell an Carl Wieman.