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William Phillips is a Distinguished University and College Park Professor of physics. In 1997 he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physics "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light." Professor Phillips received his B.S. in 1970 from Juniata College and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Interview with the 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics, William D. Phillips, at the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, 2 July 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. William Phillips discusses how his home life helped develop his early interest in science, the cultural differences he has observed in ...
Dec 8, 1997 · 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 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 . In 1996, he received the Albert A. Michelson Medal from The Franklin Institute .
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. In 1978 Phillips joined the National Bureau of ...
Sep 27, 2016 · NIST Fellow William D. Phillips received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.”. He shared the honor with Steven Chu of Stanford University and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Their work combined to create some of the most important ...
Sep 8, 2023 · William Raymond Phillips was born in Manhattan on May 6, 1930, to William and Florence (Leavy) Phillips. His father was a New York police officer who brought bags of cash home at Christmastime.
