Wolfgang Ketterle

1996 Fellow

Current Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Physics

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About Wolfgang Ketterle's Work

He leads a research group exploring new forms of matter of ultracold atoms, in particular novel aspects of superfluidity, coherence, magnetic ordering and correlations in many-body systems. The systems he is interested in include Bose-Einstein condensates, strongly interacting Fermi gases, ultracold molecules and atoms in optical lattices.


Awards and Achievements

Fritz London Prize in Low Temperature Physics (1999)

Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2000)

Nobel Prize in Physics (2001)

National Academy of Science

German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina