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Wolfgang Ketterle
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Wolfgang Ketterle at a symposium at Brown University, 2007
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| Born | 21 October 1957 |
| Nationality | Germany, United States |
| Alma mater | Heidelberg TUM LMU Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics |
| Known for | Bose–Einstein condensates |
| Awards | Benjamin Franklin Medal (2000) Nobel Prize for Physics (2001) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Heidelberg MIT |
| Doctoral advisor | Herbert Walther Hartmut Figger |
| Doctoral students | Kendall B. Davis Marc-Oliver Mewes Dan Stamper-Kurn Martin Zwierlein |
Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist. He is a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His works focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero.
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.
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