WILLIAM D. PHILLIPS

1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics

for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.

• Born: 1948
• Place of birth: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
• Education: Ph.D.'76 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, U.S.A.)
• Affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Atomic Physics Division, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, U.S.A.
  • Email: william.phillips@nist.gov, lasercoo@nist.gov, wphillips@nist.gov
  • Phone: (301) 975-6554

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• Prize co-recipient: Steven Chu
• Prize co-recipient: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
• Official award announcement and brief background
• Additional background on the discovery
• NIST's Atomic Physics Division, Dr. Phillips's home base. See also their Technical Activity Highlights page
• Department of Commerce News Release - Statement by the US Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley on the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Statement by NIST acting director, Dr. Robert Hebner, on the award of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics to William D. Phillips
• Statement by NIST Physics Laboratory director, Dr. Katharine B. Gebbie, on the award
• Short history of Dr. Phillips' career released upon his 1997 election to the National Academy of Sciences
• William D. Phillips reports on results with cold atoms at the 1996 AAAS Meeting

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• CNN coverage of the 1997 Physics Nobel Prize
• MSNBC's coverage of the Prize
• Atom cooling and trapping
• Atom Optics, Cooling, and Trapping
• Links to Interesting Activites in the Field of Laser, Quantum, Atomic, and Molecular Physics
• Juniata College (submitted by Ronald Seiler, Past President Juniata Alumni Assoc.)
• Laser Spectroscopy - Papers contributed by William D Phillips
• William D. Phillips – Autobiography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• Physics Nobel Prize awarded (submitted by Davis)
• William D. Phillips bio (submitted by John)
• development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. (submitted by Valka)
• William D info (submitted by jerat)
• William D. Phillips Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)

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