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William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1997, with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
William D. Phillips is an American physicist whose experiments using laser light to cool and trap atoms earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997. He shared the award with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who also developed methods of laser cooling and atom trapping.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 was awarded jointly to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
William D. Phillips. Professor of Physics, University of Maryland; Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Verified email at nist.gov. cold atomic gases metrology quantum...
Background. 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
William D. Phillips shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji for developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. Learn more about his work, affiliation, prize motivation, and citation on NobelPrize.org.
Born on 5 November 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, William Phillips is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist known for the development of laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms. After earning his PhD in physics from MIT in 1976, he worked two more years at MIT as a postdoctoral fellow.
